Word: trippings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rescue chamber came within 150 ft. of the surface on its final trip up, the lower cable fouled on its winch. For three hours and 45 minutes Lieutenant Naquin and seven men had to revise their calculations on the probability of death, while around them divers worked desperately in the darkness. Finally the jammed cable was cut and the bell hauled up foot by foot. At 12:38 a.m. of the second day the U. S. Navy had rescued its living. Below, in the hull of the deep-diving Squalus, 26 corpses slept...
...Junior Varsity crew was coached by Report F. Horrick '95, a great benefactor of Harvard rowing. According to the H book of Harvard athletics, the second crews between 1899 and 1914 had rowed their annual races in fours. The change was made to eights in 1914 for Harvard's trip to Henley...
...Sanskrit exam may become a little embittered about the whole thing. But those who want to see acting in its very finest form, those who want to see a top-notch actress in a top-notch role, a drama that has real emotional uplift, those men better take a trip right up to a certain building on the Square and ask for Bette...
...likely to be good. Occasionally he goes duck shooting on the Chesapeake. Still more rarely he goes on short cruises in his 107-foot, twin-Diesel yacht Glenmar, from which he keeps in communication with the plant by radiotelephone. He likes to talk about plans for a long trip at sea, but probably he will never make it, because he invariably finds ways to keep himself busy...
Under CAA's certificate of convenience and necessity, awarded to Pan Am the day before the first trip, only two transatlantic flights may be made a week. With authorizations from France and England for six a week, CAA is keeping room for competition. Only competitor now in sight: American Export Airlines, which has not yet made its first exploration flight...