Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After those six drubbings on that road trip out West any coach would be," Purpur commented. The sextet lost successive games to Minnesota University, Colorado College, and Denver University during the Christmas recess. Purpur called Weiland's charges that teams like Denver and North Dakota have three Canadians to one American a "sweeping statement...
...chiefs honor the Koshare troop by appointing two representatives to attend a performance of the sacred dances, to see for themselves that no mock was being made of the gods? And to show that the white chief spoke with no forked tongue, he sent two round-trip railroad tickets to La Junta...
Last week the latest catches of Fashion-Hunter Schnurer-the results of a three-week trip to Turkey last summer-went on sale in Manhattan and Los Angeles. Priced from $14.95 to $65, her 1954 line of winter resort clothes includes simple but smartly styled bathing suits, jackets, blouses and dresses decorated with tar-booshed figures and such Turkish zigzags as designs copied from the ceremonial rug of a Turkish emir and from wrought-iron grillwork that she spotted in Istanbul...
Designer Schnurer is a onetime elementary-art and music teacher who married a bathing-suit manufacturer 24 years ago and later went to work for him. She took her first fashion-scouting trip to South America during World War II, under the auspices of Manhattan's Franklin Simon & Co. and three other department stores, which wanted her to look for new fabrics and ideas. After brushing up on her Spanish, she went to Peru, Ecuador and Guatemala, bought clothes right off the Indians' backs, and came back with plenty of ideas, notably the design for a short, pleated...
...first trip to South America was so successful that plump, jolly Carolyn Schnurer persuaded other stores to help pay the costs of nine subsequent trips to far-off places. She and her husband, who runs the business side of the operation, never know what may come from her trips. From Haiti, she borrowed a Mother Hubbard-style dress; from the fishermen of Brittany, a pullover sweater; from Japan, a straight-line coat modeled after a judo wrestler's dressing gown. Designer Schnurer got some of her best ideas from Ireland. Says she: "I decided just to relax when...