Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where he was graduated in the Fall of 1918, going to Germany with the 7th Field Artillery in the Army of Occupation. He was formerly with the Madison Barracks at Lake Ontario, until last summer when he was placed in charge of CCC work in Vermont. After graduating from Camp Knox School of Instruction in 1920 he spent the following year there as instructor. At the University of Chicago he was an instructor of the ROTC unit, and "in charge of the largest bass drum in the world...
This was recognition from the President who had promised a New Deal to labor and then condoned the erection of a concentration camp in Georgia; the President who had pledged a redistribution of wealth and then allowed real wages to tumble headlong under his recovery program; the President who had proclaimed that his rule would be one of "enlightenment" and then sanctioned the destruction of food while millions starved; the president who had preached "industrial democracy" and stood by while strikers were slaughtered by his own troops because they dared ask for subsistence; the President who had mouthed the phrases...
Confidence emanated from the Bruin camp as the club went through its tapering-off session. Although in their two first games, which they won handily, McLaughry's men failed to live up to pre-season hopes, they showed flashes of great power. The last week has been spent on concentrating on co-ordination, timing and clean ball-handling, together with drill on a new series of deceptive plays. The Bear outfit is about ready to find itself and should McLaughry's boys play the game of which they are capable. Harvard will be in for a difficult afternoon...
...wistful tones of a highly pitched voice drifted lightly through the autumnal silence of the night. A solitary figure patrolling with all the apathy of an Apted aide-de-camp in the shade of the Kirkland House quadrangle stopped suddenly alert to the alien tones that at this hour of darkness had no right, according to all the parietal rules, to issue forth from within the monastic confines of the ivy-clad Georgian depths. In a glance his trained eye had the situation in hand and his other eye began to comprehend and follow uncertain but trusting the leadership...
...daughter, two daughters-in-law, granddaughter and adopted grandson-are introduced in The Last Gentleman at a family memorial service for a deceased niece which Cabot Barr arranges because he is not, he says, "the sort of man who gives Christmas parties." They reassemble at Cabot Barrs summer camp, where he hopes his granddaughter and adopted grandson will reach an understanding...