Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort on the part of organizations of our country to express their disapproval of such expenditures now, even though the projects may be most meritorious. They should be withheld until the country is in better condition."* ¶ Rain and cold greeted President Hoover when he arrived at his Rapidan camp for the weekend. Most of his time was spent sitting around a roaring log fire talking to Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico-possibly, guessed the Press, about Governor Roosevelt's being sent to the Philippines to relieve Dwight Filley Davis...
John S. Clarke Jr. in the shoulder. Alex ander Siemel, jaguar spearer and expedition field director, got the injured man to their main camp on John Gordon Ram say's huge Descalvados ranch (it is as big as Connecticut), sent him by airplane to Corumba for hospital mending...
Adams calls the frontier the U. S. safety-valve, admires the pioneers, but this side idolatry. Adams tells soberly of one Kentucky camp-meeting in 1801 attended by more than 25,000, preached at for a week by 17 preachers, graced at one moment by 3,000 prostrate swooners, 500 "jerkers" and "barkers."' "Two of the strongest influences in our life, religion and the frontier, made in our formative periods for a limited and intolerant spiritual life. . . . Because the frontiersmen had developed the right combination of qualities to conquer the wilderness, they began to believe quite naturally that they...
...Orono stalwarts were crushed by the Elis, chiefly because Coach Brice threw nearly his whole strength into the opening period and was swamped towards the end of the game. All Harvard rooters will watch with interest the debut of practically the same Blue team which the Crimson took into camp last year to the tune of 13 to 0, and which they hope will be polished off this season by a Harvard eleven put into the field not only by new coaches but with a sizeable amount of fresh material in it. On the other hand Yale will...
...forward end of the exhibition room is a tableau depicting an overnight camp on the ice. Such camps were necessary when a party went out from Little America to explore or gather scientific data. A tent accommodating two men stands in the center of the display; in the foreground is the powerful radio with which the party transmitted its daily report of the condition of the men, dogs, and food supply back to Little America. The Nansen cooker and the device for melting snow into drinking water are also shown...