Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Formal Surrender. At Camp Giradot, near Taza, Mohammed ben Abd-El-Krim performed the official gesture of laying down his arms. A minimum of ceremony was observed by the French, since Spain has long exerted pressure to have the upstart "Sultan" treated as a mere tribal chief upon his surrender. General Boichut resolved this situation with great tact, announced that he had sprained his ankle, sent a group of subordinate officers to receive the sword of Krim...
...this year, eloquent Edward D. Duffield, president of the Prudential Life Insurance Co., pointed out that Dr. Thompson is no"provincial" candidate, and asked, as a business man, that the affairs of the Church be rested with a tried administrator. Bolstered by the Modernists and Bryanites in the Fundamentalist camp, the Moderates elected Dr. Thompson 535 to 382. Mr. Duffield was appointed Vice Moderator and the Moderates had achieved another step towards their goal?peace in the church...
Three Harvard net teams left the courts on Saturday with feathers of victory over Yale safely in their caps. The University tennis team took the Elis into camp on the Divinity Courts by a score of 8 to 1, and so completed a season marred by only one defeat, that at the hands of the Princeton players, winners of the Big Three title...
...Great Eastern Railway of England carried 200 -000 to King Edward VII's coronation, the previous record.) The railways will place 600 special guards at crossovers. Several hundred employes of the Cook County forest preserve will watch cross-roads and dispense bedding, fuel and cooking utensils at the many camp sites provided for the touring pilgrims. Auto-repair gangs will patrol the roads. First aid stations will minister to the stricken...
...civilized nation. It must carry, often overseas, always into wilderness, food; ammunitions and other trappings of a specialized war machine, the usual items of the "white man's burden"; while the unspecialized natives wage their war on a rather homeless homeland by the simple process of gathering, attacking, striking camp, and dispersing like deer...