Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When she enters the White House with her sons, John and Calvin, for the first time since the Taft administration, there will be children in the Executive Mansion. Both sons are students at Mercersburg Academy (Pennsylvania). This Summer John, 17, is in attendance at a military training camp (Mr. Coolidge is firm believer in military and naval preparedness), and Calvin, 15, is working at $3.50 a day on a vacation (tobacco) farm. Later in the Summer when Mrs. Coolidge enters the White House, it is understood that her children will join...
...obtaining even a modicum of sensuous delight from its gray pages. The only other lesson it seems to teach is that life in the German family it describes must have been ineffably dull. A Young Girl's Diary has been approved by the Y. W. C. A., the Camp Fire Girls and Professor O'Shea of the .Education Department of the University of Wisconsin...
...George Godfrey, my Negro sparring partner, ever knocked me out, it must have been while I was asleep. He certainly never did it while I was awake. And never since he has been in my camp has he ever shaken...
...members of the small camp are, of course, men who have received a Western education. Among them: Dr. W. W. Yen, former Foreign Minister; Dr. C. T. Wang, former General Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in China; Dr. Wang Chung-Hui, now in Europe as a Judge of the World Court; Dr. Wellington Koo, Chinese diplomat; Dr. Alfred Sze, Chinese Minister to Washington...
...view of the general uncertainty of the situation, it can only be said that China is split into a great and a small camp; the one representing the Tuchuns (War Lords) and the other composed of the most enlightened men of China. Briefly, the struggle is between oriental and occidental methods of government...