Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early last autumn Mr. Hurja made a trip to Manhattan to lunch with Dr. George Gallup. For several years Dr. Gallup had been taking polls for businessmen, particularly advertisers & publishers, who wanted to find out the preferences, buying and reading habits of the public. His method, adapted from scientific research, was to sample a section of the public big enough to be statistically accurate, representative enough to include day-laborers, skilled workers, farmers, white-collar employes, millionaires, etc. in the same proportions in which they are found in the population at large. Mr. Hurja was interested because Dr. Gallup...
...sale in Northampton, Mass, was "The Beeches," last home of Calvin Coolidge. Last autumn Widow Grace Coolidge closed "The Beeches," moved out to live with her good friend, Mrs. Florence B. Adams in whose company last week she landed at Southampton on her first trip to Europe...
...Garden to test their training. The National Amateur Athletic Union championships, always a climax to the indoor season, this year took on ½added significance. Many a youngster decided to show the 100-odd, owl-faced, stiff-shirted officials that he, as well as the old standbys, deserved a trip to Berlin for the summer Olympics...
...Marjorie drummed out piano scales long before she was given her first violin. But the fiddle revealed her talent. At 9 she had progressed so far that she was taken the 60 miles to San Francisco several times a week to study with Kathleen Parlow, who suggested the first trip East. Indomitable Mrs. Edwards was easy to convince. Money was scarce but there was the 10-year-old, seven-passenger Marmon and Son Carl, 16, to drive it. The Edwards motored East to the Berkshire Festival, motored back again as far as Lovelock, Nev., where the Marmon caught fire...
Lawson bit, sent him. In a 26-ft. sailboat the Farsons chugged, sailed or were towed from Rotterdam to the Danube delta. Husband Farson's news-dispatches paid for the trip. Thereafter for eleven years Farson covered the Eastern Hemisphere, from Gandhi to Stalin to Ramsay MacDonald, for the Daily News. Finally he was given the coveted London post, held it for four years, resigned because the News considered his viewpoint had become too Anglicized. Back again in the U. S., with a 21-year career behind him, and no longer quite so "naïve and fresh...