Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three matches will be played by the tennis team when it starts its season by making a trip south during the spring vacation. Those making the trip are all veterans plus a few others whose record during past seasons has qualified them to join the squad. These men have been working indoors for the last few weeks...
...disappointed the young ladies whom they defeated. It could scarcely have discouraged the non-playing captain of the U. S. team, Eleonora ("Eleo") Sears of Boston. For a full generation she has been the spectacular epitome of an aristocratic U. S. sports woman. For Eleonora Sears, at 52, a trip to England as captain of a squash team, some of whose members were young enough to be her daughters, is no more than an incident in a sporting career which, since it became altogether legendary years ago, can only be viewed in its current phases as a promise of what...
...China Clipper buzzed blithely into Manila for the second time. At Wake Island, on the return trip, it landed beside its sister, the Philippine Clipper, outward bound on its second trip to Manila. It was the first time two Clippers had met in transpacific service...
...loved to play with horses and dogs, and concerning golf he became, eventually, so keen that he hired a leading professional to teach him." So, after being engaged on & off many times, Evalyn finally eloped with him. Their grinning fathers gave them $100,000 each for a wedding trip, and their blessing...
...future possibilities as an aid to safe driving. Installation of his apparatus in every driving test center in the country would simplify the problem of keeping incapable operators off the highways. As Dr. de Silva himself points out, the road tests now administered, usually consisting of a trip around one city block, are entirely inadequate, as no emergency is likely to arise. His experiments, on the other hand, endanger no one, as they are carried out in the safe confines of a laboratory. A system of point rating could easily be devised, so that prospective chauffeurs and truck drivers would...