Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bear twice a normal sleeper's weight. The White Star Line took these precautions, not because it had accepted an elephant as a first class passenger, but because a prospective passenger named Primo Carnera is proportioned like the giants of myth. Passenger Camera, an Italian pugilist, planned his trip to the U. S. as a business venture. He felt that he ought to make money in a country where the biggest man who ever held the heavyweight championship (Jess Willard) was only 6 ft. 6 in. high and weighed but 250 lb.; where a recent contender (Victorio Campolo), called...
...Provincetown, Mass., the Mary A., schooner, sailed away on a fishing trip. Soon she hove back in sight, drifted near her dock while a sailor heaved a black cat over the side. Then, rid of the omen, she sailed away again...
...course, the Vagabond, is first and last a student, free lance though he may be. The point today is a little change of scene. From the anthropology lecture halls and laboratories with their pieces of chipped flint out into the open. A little anthropology at first hand, a field trip, the Indian in life...
...council is looking forward to a very successful season. It will make a trip to the South and middle West during the Spring vacation, and negotiations are under way looking towards a third trip to Canada...
Pictures of the European trip last summer will be shown; and other members will give several short talks on the history of past achievements of the club...