Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contest between Science and the Classics is, it may be hoped, as dead as the contest between Science and Theology. No reasonable person in either camp doubts that both are essential elements in our civilization, that room must be found for both, and that boys and girls who have an aptitude for either must be given opportunities to develop in accordance with their abilities. . . The value of any element in education lies in its richness in ideas by which it strengthens and enlarges the mind. Science has such ideas in plenty; and History and Modern Languages; but none of these...
...awakening, Mr. Coolidge motored to Camp Devens, and proceeded to interest himself there in a certain Corporal, who marched and countermarched with 1,600 other citizen soldiers...
...father," retorted Corporal John, as he slipped away to don "civies" and lunch with the President and his mother and the Camp Commandant...
...Camp Grant On the old rifle range at Camp Grant, Ill., two miles from the cantonment, a Negro regiment of the Illinois National Guard was engaged in routine practice with a one-pound Howitzer. Servicing of the gun was proceeding without accident, as on countless former occasions. Black bodies bent and sweated in accustomed rhythm. Periodically gunners tugged at their lanyards, set off the propelling charge of their shells with the monotonous routine of well ordered automita...
...made necessary a food and fuel way-station betwen Etah and Axel-Heiberg Land. During the past fortnight the planes scoured Ellesmere Land for a safe site and thought to have found one in Flagler Fjord. They left some fuel and oil, flew back to camp for more, returned and found a grinding field of ice had taken possession. More hunting in and out of that dangerous, glacier-hung shore and they put down another depot in Sawyer Bay. Same result. After deciding to give up the Cape Hubbard flight and turn to other objectives of the expedition...