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Word: tripping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Northern Territory Services) Empire Airways Ltd. takes over the rest of his journey. Seventh night is spent at Rambang, Dutch East Indies, eighth at Longreach, Australia. Ninth day the traveler, his all-British 13,000-mile flight completed, is landed in Brisbane, busy capital of Queensland. The long trip will cost him $800, cut the fastest steamship time by 35 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Imperial's Empire | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Instead of getting a chance to play in the show, Willow Joe is sent off on a fantastic publicity stunt, a ten-day trip down the Mississippi on water shoes, playing a guitar. Unlike his half-dozen drowned predecessors, Willow Joe makes it. Then he lands in prison for shooting a man. His luck gets worse & worse. Then he becomes a hero in a big flood, is rewarded with a nice farm in the hills. But come summer, the Pennys start complaining- even the clock "ain't been ticking natural" -and sneak back happily to the storms, floods, fever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jug Genius | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...major asset a "control ball" Curtiss stopped the Middles 7-4 on the spring trip and hurled well in relief on Johnny Mahoney in the B. U. game on Wednesday. With Ingalls on the bench with injuries, Curtiss is the number one Crimson pitcher and should come through ahead of Pennsylvania's Lefty Ruszuak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curtiss to Oppose Quakers on Enemy Mound Today | 4/16/1938 | See Source »

Most encouraging feature of the 1938 Mitchell nine is the flawless play of the infield. On the southern trip the combination produced five double plays and against the Terriers fielded without an error...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curtiss to Oppose Quakers on Enemy Mound Today | 4/16/1938 | See Source »

...previous African trip Loveridge captured between 400 and 500 snakes, the largest a 14 foot python weighing 130 pounds, which had just swallowed a bushbuck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Loveridge, Guggenheim Fellow, Leaves For Rare African Fauna Study in Fall | 4/15/1938 | See Source »

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