Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because anyone who wants to play squash can practice and get advise under expert tutelage, this year's squad has depth. Even though the number one man, Henry Foster will be out with a broken ankle and the number three man, Joe Clark, will be unable to make the trip, Coach Barnaby feels that the team has an excellent chance of winning Friday. "This year's squad is probably the best since the war," he asserted yesterday, "and I believe this is so because our long range policy of letting anyone play who wants to has paid off." Three members...
...also made a quick trip to the United States Military Academy at West Point. On arrival he was told that century-old tradition permitted him, as a head of state, to make and receive one request during his visit. He asked a pardon for all cadets undergoing punishment for breaches of discipline, and some 80 promptly had their privileges restored. At Hyde Park, where he had Thanksgiving dinner with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, he spied a handsome Persian rug which he had presented to F.D.R. six years ago. Beaming, he got down on his knees, fingered it, and made...
...young friar named Marcos eased himself into a barber's chair in Mexico City, unburdened himself of the biggest piece of news his barber had heard all summer. As almost everybody in Mexico City knew, Fray Marcos de Niza had just returned from a four-month trip into the unexplored country to the north, in search of the legendary "Seven Cities of Antilia." What he said while his whiskers were coming off took his story dramatically out of the reach of expedition yarns. North of the Gila, he said, there was a fabulously wealthy country called Cibola, with "many...
...went with him on a cross-country honeymoon tour. Seamans describes the trip through a Nebraska rainstorm: "The windshield was down, the top blew off, and it was like riding in a bathtub. The highest point in the car was the steering wheel...
...team's 18-game schedule shows a preponderance of matches with nearby schools; but these teams are all "pretty good," according to Chase's pre-season sizeups. A Christmas trip west, with games against Minnesota and Michigan, had been planned, but the steel strike held up completion of Minnesota's new rink which the Crimson was to have helped inaugurate. So the junket was called...