Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Love." Since the Duke of Gloucester was obliged to mourn last week, he prepared to withdraw to the bachelor seclusion of his regiment at Catterick Camp. It was he who in 1926 represented King George at the marriage of Belgian Crown Prince Leopold and the beautiful young Swedish Princess who last week died Queen Astrid...
...street one-o'-cat games, he was offered a job with the Yankees in 1930, shrewdly refused it because he foresaw small chance of replacing First Baseman Lou Gehrig. He quit New York University at the end of his first semester to join the Tigers at their training camp, played on Detroit's minor league "farms" for three seasons, rejoined the Tigers two years ago. So far this year he has made 34 homeruns, surpassed Gehrig's batting average .342 to .340. The idol of Detroit schoolchildren, he is approved by baseball-minded Jewish matrons because...
Three years ago the U. S. military establishment was divided up on a new principle of four geographical "Armies," consisting of regular and national guard units. Each year one of these armies was to be assembled for maneuvers. Last week the first of these annual maneuvers opened at Pine Camp, near Watertown, N. Y., where five divisions of the First Army under Major General Dennis E. Nolan assembled for training and mock battle...
...divisions present the 1st (Regular) is now in process of motorization. The other four-44th New Jersey & New York, 27th New York, 43rd and 26th New England-had to depend largely on trains, although as an experiment 400 taxicabs and private trucks were hired to convey troops to the camp from Buffalo and Manhattan at a cost of $95,000. All told, there were nearly 3,000 motorcabs engaged in the maneuvers as compared to 1,337 horses and mules. There were also 55 tractors, three tanks (not counting 27 worthless relics of the War) and a detachment of motorized...
...Long Valley, N. J., arrested for peeking at nudists sunning themselves in a camp next to his farm, William Searles invited 150 neighbors to watch the nudists from his property, complained: "Why, there was only two good looking girls in the lot and they would have looked a lot better if they had had their dresses on. One woman weighed 300 lb. anyway. . . . There's nothing pretty about a naked woman...