Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...native stock, he was youngest of ten children in a Quaker family. Graduated from the Hudson High School, he supported himself by stenography before going West to matriculate at the University of Michigan. There he waited table, sold books, got his law degree in 1905. The great copper-mining camp at Butte, Mont, appealed to him as a place where a young lawyer without influence might make a living. Arrived there, he was preparing to push on to Portland, Ore. when two sharpers bilked him of his bankroll. He managed to get part of his money back, decided to remain...
...German intrigue are spun one of the chief characters is always Meissner. He is supposed to have "made" half the post-War chancellors of the Reich. When Nazis broke into the House of Socialist President Ebert's widow with intent to carry off her son to a concentration camp, she managed to get through to Meissner on the telephone and he managed to get Hindenburg to tell Hitler to let the Socialist family of Ebert alone (TIME, March 27). That was the only time that Dr. Meissner faced a dilemma in which his past, present and future chief might...
...movements. The party, composed of 11 men under the leadership of Bradford Washburn '33, was divided into two groups; the climbing party of Adams Carter '36, Howard Kellog '37, Waldo Holcombe '33, Edward C. Streeter Jr. '36, Bradford Washburn '33, and Henry S. Woods of Dartmouth; and the base camp party, which was to make geophysical and geological surveys, of R. P. Goldthwait, A. Lincoln Washburn, Russell Dow, Robert Stix, and D. F. Putnam, all of Dartmouth...
...spirited suit for divorce last week, grizzled old General Josef Karel, once aide-de-camp to Emperor Franz Josef, denounced his wife for something new in the annals of Austrian jurisprudence: political infidelity...
...Foraker, 17,000 ft. high, whose two breastlike peaks the Kuskokwim call "Denali's Wife." "Denali" had been climbed to the top but "Denali's Wife" had not last July when Dr. T. Graham Brown of the University of South Wales & party set up their base camp on the Foraker River. From there the climbers struggled to the ice-clad summit of Mt. Foraker's north peak, four days later through deep new snowdrifts to the crest of the south peak...