Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of her crew a youth named Ronald Amundsen, whose achievements later became famous in the annals of polar exploration. It was Captain Amundsen who, in 1926, recommended the staunch old ship to Admiral Byrd for the long voyage southward to the Rose. Barrior, where Little America, the base camp of the Antarctic Expedition, was later to be located...
Along the walls of the exhibition room are placed the many things brought back from Little America. Glass cases are filled with specimens of Antarctic life and with pieces of equipment used in camp. There are condensed and dehydrated foods, clothing, including boots, gloves and outer garments, birds from the bottom of the world occupy their case: the small Adelie penguins, the mighty Emperor penguins, petrels and gulls. There is also a display of navigation and scientific equipment...
From the Rapidan camp he motored to Martinsburg, W. Va., boarded a special train. Only his immediate staff was with him. So anxious was the President to avoid being caught up and delayed by Legion ceremonies that he had the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. slow up the train as it neared Detroit. With hardly a moment to spare, he arrived shortly after 11 a. m., drove immediately to Olympia Arena through yowling crowds, stepped up on the rostrum and with many a decisive shake of his square head gravely told the American Legion what he expected of it. Excerpts...
...faculty is well paid ... to teach -not to carry on research or to write books. ... A Professor of Hunting & Fishing will fill an important place. It is just as important to know how to make a camp and cook a meal in the woods as it is to have an acquaintance with Roman history; as essential to appreciate the open country as be able to speak French...
Women, soldiers, an Indian chief and a clergyman, children, sailors, cowboys, a chemist, a Japanese, a Chinese, an Hawaiian-all these lay in a 5-mi. firing line at Camp Perry (Ohio) last week. They were shooting, for the most part in rain and mud, in the 58th annual National Rifle & Pistol Matches. The three-week Camp Perry shoot is the biggest in the world, dwarfing England's Bisley. This year 3,000 competitors broke all previous Camp Perry records in attendance...