Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble was, Captain Kawrahito found out when he reached the bandit camp, that Mrs. Pawley's kidnappers considered themselves unemployed and wanted steady jobs. As the first condition of ransom they demanded permission to enlist in the new Manchukuo Gendarmery. Second they demanded that the cash part of the ransom be paid in Chinese silver dollars, not in Japanese paper...
...into the air three times. I nearly jumped out of my boots when I heard three answering shots, so close they seemed to be almost at my side. . , . We built a fire . . . chopped branches from the trees . . . made a leanto. About six o'clock another hunter straggled into camp. He was almost done up but he had a good supply of food...
...Bruin squad, at full strength for the game, has taken Yale, Springfield, Rhode Island State and Tufts into camp in its four previous encounters, and has been drilling hard for the clash this weekend...
...spirit and moral purpose is in some respects more indefensible than open rejection. . . . "Germany has disarmed. Her demand is that the other powers give her a position of equality-not that she be permitted to arm. It is due to the other nations that Europe is an armed camp-that Europe has an army of 4,500,000 men-that the leading nations are extorting from their tax-ridden people $5,000,000,000 a year for armaments. . . . "In individuals we loathe intolerance, we despise narrowness of view and insufferable egotism. But those things . . . seem to be virtues with nations...
Barney Slaney, six-foot-five and solid as stone, was a brave engineer but his wife was a bad w-m-n. When Barney discovered the facts he killed her and her lover, was sentenced to a convict camp for life. But he did not stay long. Told off to help bury yellow-fever victims in a nearby town, Barney made a graveyard break and got away. In his flight he met up with a lovely virgin, conveniently orphaned by the epidemic. Naturally they fell in love. In a Western mining town they married, soon became most popular members...