Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight-week trip to the Orient with first-class accommodations for a man and his wife costs some $2,000, is about as pleasant a vacation as there is. It is even more pleasant if someone else is paying for it. Consequently, when Vice President & Mrs. John Nance Garner, with a party of 46 Senators and Representatives, their ladies, sailed away from Seattle last week aboard the American Mail Liner President Grant as the official guests of the Philippine Commonwealth to the inauguration of President Manuel Quezon next month, everyone was as happy as a jay bird with a worm...
Story began with a tantalizing little dispatch from Honolulu fortnight ago to the effect that J. Walter Doyle, Collector of Customs of that port, had returned from a trip to Howland, Baker and Jarvis Islands in mid-Pacific, had refused to allow his subordinates to inspect his luggage on the ground that he had not been outside the U. S. This gesture was supposed to clinch U. S. title to three tiny specks of land spang on the equator and almost midway between the Hawaiian Islands, Australia and New Zealand...
...Ethiopia is Compagnie du Chemin de Fer Franco-Ethiopien de Djibouti à Addis Ababa. Between magnificent modern stations at either end of the line stretch 494 miles of rough, single-track narrow-gauge roadbed over which a collection of ramshackle second-hand French rolling stock normally makes bi-weekly trips. One of the few pieces of equipment which can compare in splendor with the two terminals is Emperor Haile Selassie's white private car. Because natives along the barren right-of-way are in the habit of prying up steel rails to beat into swords and spearheads, ordinary trains...
Although making the trip in separate boats, 60 Harvard Glee Clubbers will join with 80 members of the Radcliffe Choral Society for a concert in New York's Town Hall on Sunday, March...
This is the first time that the Glee Club and the Choral Society have ever joined forces further away than Andover, and the first time in ever five years that the Glee Club has made a trip during the Spring Vacation. The Choral Society will return to Cambridge after the New York concert, leaving the Glee Club to continue its tour...