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Word: tripped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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About a third get to the Square by bike or on foot, and their average time for a one-way trip is 15 minutes. Another third who drive or get rides with friends take about a half hour, and the others come by public transportation, averaging 45 minutes per trip. The average non-resident spends a working day of 8.5 hours somewhere at Harvard, and the 70 per cent who use Lamont spend three hours a day in the sterilized stacks...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Still Needed: 'Real House' for Non-Residents | 5/7/1959 | See Source »

...promise" implies a homosexual guarantee. Mannie says Chopper had agreed to go on a fishing trip with him and Mannie wants the promise honored. They go to bed, separately, a figure is seen spying on Chopper abed with his wife Joanna, and the family's cat, heard screeching, is subsequently knifed "in a certain place." Big he-man Chopper advocates locking all the windows and doors, and I don't blame...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: The Advocate | 5/6/1959 | See Source »

...Pasadena, he and Pickering decided that the payload-basically a Geiger counter to detect cosmic rays in space and two incredibly light but powerful radio transmitters-would have to be modified in one respect. It contained a miniature tape recorder to record the cosmic-ray data during a trip around the earth and then transmit it quickly when triggered by a coded signal sent up from the ground. Designed for Vanguard, this elegant apparatus would not work in Explorer I, which would spin too fast. So it was removed, requiring Explorer I to broadcast continuously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Reach into Space | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...napkin. In 1950, despite his well-earned reputation as a stay-up-all-night playboy, he won the Collier Trophy for distinguished service to aviation as a designer-manufacturer. In 1956 he achieved a different kind of notoriety by flying his Cessna 310 to Moscow on an impromptu tourist trip (TIME, July 9, 1956), stirred up a storm in Washington, which feared, wrongly, that he planned to sell the Russians his products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Mr. Navcom | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

Trooping through The Netherlands last week went 78 American tourists whom most European businessmen were particularly anxious to impress. The tourists were all members of the New York Society of Security Analysts on a field trip to see whether European securities are a good buy. Conclusion after touring 37 companies in five countries: definitely but for sophisticated investors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Good Buys, But.. . | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

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