Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flat cars are equipped with chairs from the Readsboro factory of President Pope, the Boston & Maine Railroad lends an old day coach for the trip, now reaching only to Mountain Mills, two miles from Wilmington, Vt., where the line's trestle was washed out in the March flood. The remainder of the trip was by automobile...
President Conant will give a belated welcome to the Freshman Class tonight in the Harvard Union. This is his first official appearance of the year after his short trip to England following the Tercentenary Celebration...
Three-Wheeling Through Africa is the record of a motorcycle trip by two University of Nebraska graduates from Lagos, Nigeria, 3,800 mi. to the Red Sea. Written in an exclamatory prose and complete with descriptions of hardships and breakdowns through equatorial Africa it is the one book of all recent volumes on Africa most likely to set a reader puzzling as to whether the outlandish habits of natives in the eyes of whites are half as inexplicable as the habits of whites in the eyes of natives...
...schedule calls for one trip abroad by each team to play two foreign opponents. On their native soil every sextet will play every other twice. Breaking past precedent, there is no provision for playoffs...
Hecht and MacArthur again, taking sophisticated cracks at the newly popular cult of armchair communism, as practiced at intellectual colleges. This one is co-educational; the founder's daughter, a bored post-debutante, returns for more learning after a trip around the world, and falls in love with the arch-radical of the campus. Nothing is too red for her then, until she is kidnapped by one who embodies all radicalism within himself; rescued from his predicament by a trio of splendidly-played burlesque G-men, and returned to the arms of her incredibly rich father, through with bolshevism...