Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night A New Dawn is playing; And far above all nations, The people's flag is flying-WHITE And we have heard a call That was never raised before, And we're making camp FOR NO MORE...
...months later. The Danakils, especially those who had no feathers in their hair, gave them many an anxious moment. (A feather stuck in a Danakil topknot shows that a year has not elapsed since he killed a man.) Three of the expedition's carriers strayed too far from camp, never came back. Hottest day's temperature recorded was 168°F. Even in the shade it was unwise to touch a rifle-barrel. Because the temperature of the human body is only 98°, they found it cooled their hands to put them under their armpits...
Morris De Camp Crawford '37, of Nyack, New York, and John Melvin Hartwell, Jr. '36, of Belmont, have been elected to the Eliot House Committee...
Only a decisive victory over Brown will raise hopes in the Crimson camp of defeating Yale next Saturday, and this possibility is a remote one. Then too the Elis have been picking up steadily, and theirs has been the only team to vanquish the men from Providence in Brown's last eleven games...
Appropriately enough, Author Ferber's latest run-of-the-mill is about pulp. Come and Get It is the story of Barney Glasgow, who fought his way up from chore boy in a logging camp to lumber king of Wisconsin, then lost his kingdom while it was still worth losing. As usual in Ferber stories, the fortunes of the dubious hero and his train are merely a framework for a lively description of logging society, from the snowy Wisconsin camps to the over-stuffed comfort of a rich small-town community. Barney's defeat...