Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grand Army of the Republic is dwindling in numbers. But when the last march is made and the last comrade is sleeping in the old camp ground, the Grand Army will be more than a memory, for it will become the tradition it has moulded; and by great traditions only do nations achieve that most difficult greatness, grandeur of spirit...
...control the appointment of the Foreign Missions and the Home Missions committees, both of which are now held by Liberals. The Unitarian churches of the United States are holding their annual convention in Boston (May 20-27). There is no danger of their being stampeded into the Fundamentalist camp. They will be addressed by Rev. A. W. Slaten, late professor at William Jewell College, in Missouri- a Baptist College which expelled him for teaching evolution, and so " subverting Christianity...
Prizes will be awarded, including a radio field set, camp cooking outfits, a tent, field glasses, cameras, and a baseball outfit...
...means of "self-expression." He would have the former realize that literature is a great force in the nation, that it has a place in the State University along with the science of making a hundred bushels of wheat grow where ten grew before. Then turning to the other camp, he would have them produce this literature which is to be the force. They should appreciate the work that our pioneers have done. "For the 'bore' of 1850, the plow and hammer; for his sons, the pursuit of happiness." It is they who have laid the foundations for the present...
...protected above by the screaming eagle and on all sides by a cordon of staunch state legislatures, self-chosen guardians of national myths. Any history which puts in question an action of the United States may be thrown out of the schools as foreign propaganda. In the opposite camp are the "heretics" who tell us that whatever is, is probably not right, and who sometimes go afield to be consistent...