Word: camp
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...defeat to the Yale Freshmen, the Blue had been undefeated, whereas the 1931 aggregation had already captured the championship of the Class B league of the Boston Indoor Polo Association. Both of the Freshman outfits have taken teams from the University squads of their respective colleges into camp, the Crimson first-year men having pinned the University horsemen to defeat at one time this season...
...nine o'clock that morning Camp No. 2 had been pitched on the landing. Our guides, accustomed to the long grind, were so industrious that at four that afternoon the white tent of Camp No. 3, which was to be our highest camp, had been pitched on the landing nearest the summit. From this camp Fritz and Murgatroyd were to make the final dash. By seven o'clock the tent was full of meteorological instruments and empty bottles. At nine o'clock Fritz bought back his watch for ten blue chips, looked at it and at Murgatroyd, snapped it shut...
...first planned to pitch our base camp on the Farnsworth-Treasure Room Plateau, but by dint of much boosting from behind we were able to drive our pack animals higher. Sliding, slipping, going down on all four haunches (something a yak is rarely forced, or even able, to do) the animals somehow reached the General Reading Plateau. Here we pitched Camp No. 1, twenty thousand feet above the sea, one hundred feet above the street car line...
Fritz, dear old Fritz McCarthy, to whom I would soon say goodbye forever, had one of his thoughts. "Wait a year," he said with the roguish twinkle that gained him the reputation of "funster" around camp. He strapped on his climbing shoes with the heavy iron spikes, and disappeared across the plateau and into the Reading Room. A minute later he came in sight. He had two natives under each arm, whose whole lives, as he told us, had been spent in the vicinity of the peak. Had they ever been to the top? Answering with fluent hands in sign...
...watched from Camp No. 3 know only this: that about 9.55.32 on that evening a sudden darkness fell about us. Twenty seconds later it was light again, but by then, as we now believe, Murgatroyd and McCarthy had walked into the elevator shaft...