Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Los Angeles newspapers headlined young Warner as a "love captive," he disappeared on a yachting trip. Asked to clear up the confusion, Mr. Warner Sr. snapped: "I am.very much annoyed...
...King now in his scarlet, gold & blue uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Scots Guards, but still with the Order of the Thistle, the Queen wearing a gold brocade gown and a diamond-&-ruby tiara * received over 200 Scottish debutantes who were thus spared the trouble of a trip to London...
Navigator Noonan's wife was cheered when she received some photographs from her husband, mailed weeks ago from the Far East. There was also a letter. Excerpt: "Amelia is a grand person for such a trip. She is the only woman flyer I would care to make such a trip with because in addition to being a fine companion she can take hardship as well as a man?and work like...
...have had a better idea where to look if the plane had radioed its position at regular intervals. But not one position report was received after the plane left New Guinea. In fact only seven position reports are known to have been radioed by the flyers during their entire trip...
...first trip across, like the ones that followed, came near being the last. Forced by decrepit freighters to crawl along at eight knots, they lost their best defense against U-boats: speed and zigzagging. A submarine needed only 15 seconds to let go with a "tin fish." Tales about previous submarine victims did not help to relax the nerves any. The first attack came at night, in a grey light that made a submarine invisible except for a dim white ripple. The torpedoes missed by a hair. When an oily patch showed where the submarine had been, the five-inch...