Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That was a new idea to many Britons. What had been a titular role, her trip had made real. Said the Economist sternly: "Let the bells, the bands, the saluting cannonade ring over London with no note of jealous possessiveness, no claim that the capital is taking back to itself a priceless possession that has been on loan . . . for it is the other Commonwealth countries which have a right to ask of Britain today that we should not overwork their Queen...
...eight regular oarsmen--plus coxswain, two spares, and a coach, who made the 1,200-mile trip by air--will be rowing west of the Atlantic for the fifth time in modern Harvard crew history and for the first time against Wisconsin on its home water...
...regions to interview it. On the Mouse will be a receiving apparatus to pick up a signal from the airplane. When the signal arrives, a magnetic tape will start moving and send, in 30 seconds of telemetered code, all the information that the Mouse has gathered in its last trip from pole to pole. Brief messages are desirable, because electric power will have to come from some sort of battery. Later on, thinks the professor, a Supermouse can be sent up higher, stay up longer, and get its power from sunlight...
...precipitous waterfalls. Once it took the explorers a week to advance a mile overland. But finally, with muddy, lifeless faces, they emerged to the "civilization [that] awaited us, with its haste and its rapacity, but also with its power and its glory." Through all the mishaps of his trip, Gheerbrant managed to hold onto his notes. He is a poet and has transformed them into a fascinating and noble book...
...Iranian archeology, is anxiously watching that country's political situation, while biologists are contemplating the morphology of ferns, or gathering ants for study in the methods of social and organic evolution. The ant biologist has already a remarkable number of specimens, but, unsatisfied, he is thinking of a trip to New Guinea to help round out the collection...