Word: trippingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Shanghai and business, Ambassador Johnson went to Peking and pleasure. In Peking with the Ambassador's wife are her son, Nelson Beck ("Nubby"), 6, and daughter, Betty Jane, for whose fourth birthday this week he made the trip north. He had not seen his family since last May (in the U. S., after a trip out of China via the then brand new 2,100-mile Burma road, over which the Ambassador was the first civilian to drive...
...Noble, of Minneapolis, Minn., will remember it as the year she crocheted 117,000 feet of thread into a 10' 6" by 6' 4" tablecloth with 2,000,000 patient little stitches and won the crochet championship of the U. S. Prize: $250 in cash, a trip to Manhattan, a gold crochet hook...
...competitors and winner of the men's divisions: John Miller, of California, who took time off from punching cows to win a three-day trip to New York City by plane. He crocheted a bedspread...
...lunchtime, pupils lined up at a basin took turns washing. Miss Campbell and the older boys & girls, helped the young children unwrap sandwiches, got the potatoes out of the stove. While the children ate, Ralph told them about an airplane trip he had taken a few days before. First crisis of the day came after lunch, when Ralph and Johnny were discovered in the ditch beside the road, fighting. Brought before Miss Campbell, they bawled. She restored peace by appointing them both captains to run the kickball game. But Ralph was still sulky after the game. Said...
...loose, their danger period is supposed to be limited to one hour. A small submarine can carry 20 mines, can plant them through specially constructed mine tubes while submerged if necessary. Larger craft have special devices for submarine egg-laying and can put down 40 or more charges per trip...