Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tuesday, May 18, the CRIMSON printed an account of the recent riot here as interpreted in the London Daily Express. The following translation of an article written in Flemish from the Antwerp Handlesblad Illustrates how the story was further improved by a trip across the Channel...
...runs ashore to the trigger of a time clock. During the early spring, Alaskans pay $1 for a chance to guess the exact day, hour and minute that the ice will move far enough down the Tanana to take up the 100 ft. of slack in the wire and trip the time trigger. To the winner of this elemental lottery, begun in 1917, goes the pool...
...London Pilot Merrill hotly protested that his trip was no "stunt"' but "a pioneering commercial venture in aviation," and in Manhattan Eastern Air Lines officials pointed out that passengers constantly request to be "put on Dick Merrill's plane." But some professional aviators agreed with Boake Carter, pointing out such facts as that Pilot Merrill relied greatly on a Sperry gyropilot in his jaunt but did not bother to test it or learn fully how it worked before starting...
Twelve years ago some 60 men of God who had gone through the World War founded the Chaplains Association of the Army of the U. S. They drew up a constitution providing for annual conventions in Washington. When the trip to the nation's capital proved too costly for inland chaplains (only eight turned up at one gathering), the chaplains nullified their constitution, met where they pleased. Last week in Chicago gathered the largest chaplains' convention to date, 226 men of 26 denominations in 40 States...
...these attempts have come from such contemporary novelists as John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Wolfe. To the lesser footnotes Novelist Nathan Asch (The Office, Pay Day) this week added his own modestly tentative, well-written account of what the U. S. means after a four-month bus trip...