Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvey J. Howard, American kidnapped by bandits in Manchuria (TIME, July 27) was located in a bandit camp. An emissary of General Feng, Chinese Christion soldier, went forth to negotiate for his release-saying it might take a month...
...calculus of variations, physical applications of mathematical theory. A skilled inventor, he answered correspondence concerning the Mason hydrophone, by which United States and British warships detected submarines during the War. A good provider and thoughtful husband, he packed his wife and three children off to a cool northern camp when hot weather came, planning to join them when he might...
...trial flight, MacMillan and Byrd crossed Smith Sound to Sabine Point on Ellesmere Island, where Lieut. A. W. Greeley wintered in 1884, losing 18 soldiers by starvation. Soaring 90 miles farther westward, the planes came to the head of Froler Bay, turned and were back in camp in an hour, having covered in two hours a route of 200 miles which would have taken dogs and sledges a fortnight...
...rate, it was not until scandals of the infamous conditions (huddling like sheep of some 10,000 to 15,000 persons in dirty, tumbledown sheds scarcely large enough for half that number) at the Schneidemühl concentration camp had shaken the whole Fatherland, that a cinema, a sewing circle for girls, a sporting club for men were organized to bring cheer to the miserable...
Marcel the valet took cruel punishment in an Alaskan camp until he innocently shot four huge bears and taught the foreman la savate (pedal boxing...