Word: camped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...envelope was long, crisp, important, a flunky in tight breeches and silver braid carried it gingerly to the Chamberlain, Admiral Herr von Reuber Paschwitz. More in amaze than anger, the Admiral muttered "Dummkopf! Blockhead!" ripped, discovered the letter to be signed by Major Judson Hannigan (able morale developer, training camp inspirationalist, generous cup and counsel donor to promising rookies) 104th Infantry, Boston, Mass...
Captain H. C. Bartlett '28 of the CRIMSON nine admitted last night that he was uneasy over the rumors that had filtered out from the Princetonian camp. It has been reported that the Tigers, practicing diligently behind closed doors have imbibed a complicated system of inside baseball from a coach whose identity and, as some declare, existence is shrouded in mystery. Careful examination of the terms of the CRIMSON Princetonian athletic agreement has failed to disclose a clause forbidding the shrouding of a coach's identity or existence, in mystery, but the rumor forms part of the atmosphere of tense...
Mayor Bertha Knight Landes of Seattle: "Last week I paused, before signing an ordinance creating the job of 'bull cook' at a municipal hydro-electric work camp, to remark: 'It seems that the [City] Council could have adopted a title suggesting some degree of dignity, if not culture.' I then signed the ordinance but oldtime Seattlites wondered what I would have done with documents giving other campworkers their vernacular titles, such as 'chokerman,' 'bucker,' 'king rider,' 'faller,' 'hocker,' 'teeter,' 'punk...
...turn back to Point Barrow. The territory thus circumscribed, 50,000 square miles lying polewards of Wrangel and Whitney islands had never been viewed by man.? It might contain land. . . . But Captain Wilkins did not return to Barrow as scheduled. After 82 hours his comrades at the base camp caught a radio flash: "Engine trouble." He and Pilot Eielson had been forced down 100 miles from shore, not west, but east of Barrow's longitude. A blizzard raged. The distress signals ceased. The crew on shore waited for weather before flying out in a reserve plane...
...Barnes '29; J. K. Barre '29, E. O. Bassett '29; W. J. Bender '27; G. M. Benedict '27; L. B. Benjamin '29; Arnold Berinan '28; M. I. Bernstein '27; A. R. Blackburn Jr '29; E. R. Blondis '29; B. E. Breitenkamp '29; R. T. Bruere '28; Guernsey Camp Jr. '27; D. W. Chapman Jr. '27; W. H. Clever '29; A. C. Cohen '28; J. P. Cooke '29; M. R. Gooper '27; L. A. Copeland '27; A. T. Coyle '27; F. B. Cutts '28; Sidney Darlington '28; E. P. Dean '29; D. L. Dickson '27; H. J. Donahue...