Word: camped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...changes in the Harvard plans were announced the most interesting news from the Crimson camp being the announcement of James Brader. Harvard line coach that he would not return to Cambridge next fall. Brader, who is a graduate of Wisconsin is said to have received offers for the head coachship of a Western team...
...have the New Haven dressing room ready for occupancy when the team arrives. And after the game, when the players are celebrating the breaking of training, and the University as a whole is finding it hard to settle down, these managers will have to collect and bring back to camp all the remains...
...Hall is both a former ace of the Lafayette Escadrillc and a journalist, and as a result starts two laps behind the field. He never makes them up. He travels from the little Iowa village of his birth to a prison camp in Germany, to forgotten islands of Polynesia, to Iceland and back to Tahiti. His first chapter set in the Iowa village and describing the various soldiers of fortune passing through on the sleepers gives promise, but for the rest Hall is too self-conscious, inadequate, and careless...
...strong ones like that of the forty-niner who "herded a hive of bees across the plains. Nope, never lost a single bee," are good listening. So are the innumerable and weird stories of lost Eldorados, which stories are adrift in every mining camp. They might even be mingled, but they should never be both mixed and then torn up into Cendrars's tense and broken diction--unsuccessful attempt toward atmosphere--with too liberal use of exclamation points...
This announcement definitely ends the rumors that the University mentor might adopt a conservative policy and keep his recently-injured stars out of the Brown tilt, concentrating all his efforts on next week's struggle with Yale. In the University football camp the feeling persists that a victory over the Bruins, who have a clean state to date, would be enough to warrant every effort, and even a few risks...