Word: jaunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bridling at the censorship, the Workshop cited historical precedent in Maud Adams 1911 "Lady Godiva" jaunt through Harvard Yard, and trotted out plans for construction of a hay-lined dressing room...
...guests. Suburban Westchester residents had squawked indignantly when the U.S. began looking around the county for permanent quarters. Long Island groups protested, less notably, at the rate at which U.N. employes took over apartments and houses in a housing crisis. This week, after a fortnight's site-hunting jaunt, U.N.'s delegates sat down to select a new home...
Carefully polishing their bright white shoes, nattily adjusting their deep blue ties, Yale-men occasionally take a jaunt to the Bowl on Saturday afternoons to watch Levi and his cohorts romp through their paces. But as for gridiron activities in the outlying provinces, they know precious little. Witness the card received from a Boy in Blue by a local undergraduate. It is printed verbatim...
Motorists have their choice of two routes for the three-and-a-half hour jaunt, according to the American Automobile Association. The first runs along U. S. Highway 3 through Lowell and Concord. New Hampshire, to Penacock; from there the trail branches off to U. S. Highway 4 to Lebanon, whence State Highway 10 leads to Hanover...
Also on the Varsity docket is the revival of the annual Christmas vacation jaunt through the Western hinterlands. The team is slated to open against Western Reserve on Dec. 27 in Cleveland, swing through Indianapolis on the 30th to meet an as yet unannounced opponent, continue through Bradley Polytech in Pittsburgh two days later. The trip will be the first such journey since the war clamped down on team travel...