Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American teams, conditions have changed since Walter Camp began making his annual selection. Then high-grade football was limited to a few large Eastern colleges and it was possible to see all the leading teams is action. Now it is impossible for one man to see half of them. It is unfair to pick a man for an All-American team when the picker has never seen him play. The report may come that So-and-so-starred in such-and-such a game, but that doesn't prove anything. There can be no fair standard of comparison. Even...
...duties involved are: first, attendance at a Friday drill; second, attendance at a two weeks tour of duty at camp. Pay at government rates is allowed for this work, but part of it is turned in for the benefit of the Squadron...
...contest between the Hiram Johnson and the Coolidge men; in the Democratic, between McAdoo and Ford supporters; in the Farmer-Labor, between Ford and La Follette. In the Democratic contest, it was reported that McAdoo was sure to be chosen, but most of the reports emanated from the McAdoo camp. It is likely that all the men above named will be placed on the primary ballots, but which in first, and which in second place is uncertain...
Thus Medill McCormick is asso- ciated with the "progressives" in national politics and the extreme League of Nations irreconcilables, two groups who have caused no little trouble to the "regulars" in the Republican camp. In both respects he has a natural community of interest with Hiram Johnson, and his remarks are typical of the opposition that the Administration has to face from both groups...
Books descriptive of the earlier scientific adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Andrews are: Across Mongolian Plains?Camp and Trails in China, Whale Hunting with Sun and Camera...