Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unique entertainment will be provided for the Summer School on Monday evening, July 31, when the Jitney Players camp in the Yard in front of Widener to give Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man." The stage truck forms the little theatre and the truck drivers, mechanics, wardrobe mistresses, and canvas men, serve as actors and actresses. For ten years this versatile troupe has been travelling every summer playing for audiences ranging from professors to cowboys...
...outstanding inaccurate statement in Corporal Baker's letter is that the C.C.C. men are doing useless labor. Our camp is located...
Angeles National Forest in the mountains just north of Pasadena, Calif. The men of this camp work eight hours a day five days a week in the hot sun on firebreaks, fire-roads and trails, and on what are called erosion works. Every week-end 50% of the camp personnel is required to remain in camp at all times in case of a fire outbreak. A "fire suppression" crew of 24 C.C.C. men are on duty at all hours to answer fire calls with a fire truck...
WILLIAM WALLACE C.C.C. Co. 578 Camp No. 5 Yosemite National Park, Calif...
...Never before, Isaac.") ¶ Clean typography. ¶ Staff-written articles based on newspaper news. ¶ A Washington letter signed "Diogenes." ¶ Sport and cinema reviews, specially written and signed. ¶ Good old Digest pleasantries. ("Beauties in distress," was what the Digest called some unemployed women at an emergency relief camp.) If Drs. Funk & Wagnalls had suspected the newsdealer was playing a joke on them, they might have hurried to the Digest office and seen copies of this week's issue which sported no cover photograph but a caricature - of Budget Director Lewis W. Douglas by famed Cuban Artist Massaguer...