Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were put up at the doors of the baggage cars, long Army trucks backed up to the spur track to be loaded with the 400-troy-oz. bricks. As each truck was loaded it was convoyed by two of the Seventh Cavalry's combat cars on its brief trip to the squat depository building. Few days later the process was repeated as $120,000,000 was shipped from the U. S. Assay Office in Manhattan...
...Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots," "The Great Train Robbery," famous early melodrama, and "A Trip to the Moon," are features of the first program. It was announced that there are about 150 seats available for the afternoon showing. Undergraduates may join the Society by payment of $1. This membership entitles them to a ticket for all five programs...
...seen the wonders of the Yellow stone. In 1806 John Colter, a private soldier in the Lewis & Clark expedition, came back with stories of hot fountains and pools of yellow, pink and green mud too fantastic to be believed. In 1869 three amateur explorers made a 36-day pack trip into what was already known as "Colter's Hell," came back to report that they were so overwhelmed by what they saw that they would not risk their reputations by describing...
...spent a month duck-hunting along the shores of Maryland, while in his time off from the ducks has been spending ten hour sessions with the movies of the football games. One trip was made to Cambridge for the Harvard Club dinner and one to New York during the month where he attended the Football Coaches Meeting...
...after looking at Daugherty's papers-but the land office found them so irregular that the application was refused. After that Ochsner came to an understanding with Daugherty, though the geologist never got to the point of signing his name. And once while Daugherty was away on a trip, Ochsner sold the claims, which eventually wound up with General Petroleum. Of course, Ochsner retained the royalty rights. These were shuttled around in various private holding companies with assistance of various parties, most of 'whom also subsequently jumped into the legal fray. Daugherty started his particular lawsuits...