Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read your account of Pacific Greyhound's opening their "Nitecoach" service between this city and Kansas City with great interest because I have just completed a round trip on these buses (TIME, May 6). However, you are not entirely correct in every detail...
Schedules and equipment and operating personnel have not yet gotten down to a satisfactory state. . . . Our Western trip was canceled a few hours before departure because of motor trouble on the eastbound bus. "somewhere in Kansas." Had a passenger written your story he probably would have added that: the speed maintained to keep on time exceeds many trains, for we traveled over 60 m.p.h. for hours at a stretch . . . the motors are rather noisy in gear; on a smooth highway such as Kansas offers, travel even at high speed is considerably steadier than any extra-fare Pullman ever built...
...summer of 1933 Jones spent in Provincetown, painted not one seascape. Back to St. Louis he went with a John Barrymore mustache, announcing, "class consciousness. That's what I got out of my trip to New England. Those people are like the Chinese, ancestor worshippers. They made me realize where I belong...
Offering an opportunity to four or five students who have already taken Geology 1, a fossil collecting party is being formed by the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The object of the trip is to collect fossil vertebrates in the rich Eocene deposits of southwestern Wyoming and northeastern Utah...
Thus the Western men are heading East with almost fabulous reputations, based upon actual record shattering achievements. The trip East has never slowed them up in the past, as ten straight years of California Champions at previous IC4A competitions show...