Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commissioned officers. The guilty soldier was formally subjected to a medical examination about his heart and lungs to find how many strokes he could stand. Then, before the sunset a regimental parade was held in the drilling yard of the barracks or on the main square of the camp, the guilty soldier lay prone at the centre on a piece of rush mat or burlap, surrounded by the commanding officers and the rows of the armed units. The regimental band of music begins to play. Two corporals press the shoulders of the victim and two the thighs...
...last week within the high, oldfashioned collar he affects. "Most lamentable!" cried he. "The land is now producing fine crops." Chiming in with His Lordship, the Dorset County Council appealed to His Majesty's Government to assemble their new air Might somewhere else. "Dorset is becoming an armed camp!" sputtered Dorset County Councilor A. H. Edwards. "We will soon be taking visitors to see not the swans of Abbotsbury but the new bombing station, then to Holton Heath to see where cordite is being made and on to Bovington to see tanks in operation! The amenities of this country...
...sickly little German, Carl von Ossietzky. For nearly a year the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has been swamped with petitions from all shades of Socialists, Liberals and literary folk generally, nominating Carl von Ossietzky for the 1935 Peace Prize. Their slogan: "Send the Peace Prize into the Concentration Camp...
...soldier at the age of 14, a brevetted second lieutenant at 15, a member of the National Guard during the French Revolution, was jailed as an aristocrat at 19. In the turbulent years that followed, when military careers fell to young men. he became Napoleon's aide-de-camp, was twice wounded, had seen 15 years of service at the age of 29. Two scandals darkened his life. He was unjustly suspected of responsibility for the murder of the Duke of Enghien, "one of the few instances of individual terrorism that Napoleon appears to have allowed himself." In this...
...their classes before and after the Thanksgiving holiday. Let us hope this will not mean the return of stringent regulations on vacation cuts, of monitorships, and of the other accoutrements of schoolboy disciplinarianism. The solution lies not through the chastisement of students, through turning the colleges into a concentration camp, but through the remodelling along modern and logical lines of the vacation itself, making it last from Thanksgiving through the next week...