Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the subject of baseball was brought up, the Ambassador said that he hoped the Harvard team would make another trip to his country. He added that "at our best institution, Tokyo Imperial, we do not have much emphasis on athletics...
...floor leader of the House, New York's Bertrand H. Snell, has the duty of taking cracks at the majority, but he was in better form last week than usual when he came to summarize the highlights of the session. He listed: 1) the President's fishing trip, 2) Vice President Garner's hunting trip in Pennsylvania and 3) a Congressional eating contest, to decide the relative merits of Maine and Idaho potatoes...
...Year (see p. 12), became last week the first prominent Chinese Government official to attempt to leave China since the Japanese captured Nanking (TIME, Dec. 27). Boarding an airplane at Hankow, Son Sun gave out that he was flying to Hong Kong, would thence speed to Europe on a trip including Moscow. Meanwhile Communist leaders in China were loudly demanding the resignation of various prominent members of the Government which has had to flee Nanking and disperse itself in various Chinese cities (TIME, Nov. 29). The Reds had not yet asked that the Man of the Year resign, and presumably...
...lines of grim-faced troops with fixed bayonets as in Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia, but by sport-clad sokols, members of Czech gymnastic societies. Foreign correspondents saw in this display a commentary on the democratic beliefs of Czechoslovakia, in sharp contrast to the strong-arm rule evident on the Delbos trip through the Balkans...
...Southern white population, a good picture of Florida justice, a horrified account of New Orleans' fabled immorality, pious reflections mingled with longings for home and loved ones. Henry Whipple loved facts. He noted that the river boat Missouri used 500 cords of wood on its 1,100-mile trip from New Orleans to St. Louis, a third of its round-trip expense of $3,200. He put down the population of the towns he passed, the number of rooms in the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans, the speed of railroads, the price of cotton. But the most notable...