Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cake and at right tackle, Captain Phil Glazer of Dartmouth has beaten out the others. Perhaps the toughest stumbling block is in the berth at left end. There is Burlingame of the Army; there is Captain Reiss of Holy Cross; there is Maury Caito of Brown and there is Camp of Dartmouth. Now which shall it be? The decision seems to rest between Burlingame and Caito and since an All-Army team is to be avoided, Caito has been given the turkey...
...Chapman swore, lunged at the intruder. The man ducked back, fled out on a balcony. Dauntless Dr. Chapman leaped after him, tackled him on the fire-escape. After a moment's scuffle, the intruder kicked away, darted down to freedom. "I am accustomed to years of sleeping in camp and I can feel the presence of anybody." explained Dr. Chapman. "When I awoke the fellow's head was only a foot and a half from my own. He could have pulled my hair if I had any." Motoring from Tulsa to Oklahoma City, Assistant Conductor Carlo Edwards...
...blue-jerseyed horde from New Haven sweeps down on Cambridge this afternoon intent on taking John Harvard into camp for the third successive time, and in adding insult to injury by denying the present Crimson coaching regime a single victory in its three years in office. And no amount of apathy toward the team by Harvard undergraduates can stem the excitement that is going the rounds for this contest. Not for some time has there been so much doubt as to the outcome. That is, the sports-writers have usually been certain before the game that their guess would come...
...post-election sensation was the taking into "protective custody" (often the prelude to a Nazi prison camp) of H. R. H. Duke Albrecht, head of the former Royal House of Wurtemberg, because he refused to vote. Jailors of prison camps proudly reported that the Communists, Socialists, Jews and other anti-Hitlerites in their custody had voted "Ja" in nearly all cases. Thus at the dread prison camp in Brandenburg only 1.2% of the prisoners plucked up courage to vote "Nein...
...stockholders 52½? on the dollar (some fairs have paid only 10? on the dollar). He proposed to keep some cash in the treasury and start afresh with a "new" Fair. New concessions and new exhibits were promised the public. Other changes planned: to move the Army camp which divided the Fair and bring the less profitable southern concessions farther north; new contracts with concessionaires so that the Fair can throw out nude shows without fear of damage suits; new and brighter coats of paint on buildings; new lighting effects; cheaper bus fare; all former pay toilets to be free...