Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real rest" was what President Hoover sought last weekend at his Rapidan camp. He read newspapers, napped, strolled about, gazed at mountain trout, got his mind completely off business...
...North American waterfowl were distantly threatened with extermination. The President met this emergency with a proclamation reducing the shooting season on ducks, geese, brant and coot from three months to one (see p. 51). ¶ Another White House proclamation: Fire Prevention Week (Oct. 4-10). ¶ To his Rapidan camp the President took for a week-end outing Publishers Frank Knox of the Chicago Daily News and Warren Fairbanks of the Indianapolis News. There he left them to their own amusement long enough to discuss arms limitation with Assistant Secretary of State Rogers, anti-trust laws with Assistant Attorney General...
...larger party was on its way to pitch Camp Eight. At 2 p.m. we attained the place where two years ago a temporary camp called the Little Camp, was established. Both sides of the ridge fall with terrific steepness...
...This year the route for 120 feet was through the flank and then for a rope's length [80 ft.] through an ice couloir. After that one stood on a wide rib leading in a few minutes, rather easily, to the terrace of Camp Eight...
...Dulled with terror, we realized the terrible disaster. With a rope we fixed the porter to the rock over which the rest of the rope was double slung. We proceeded to Camp Eight, where we recalled Hartmann and Dr. Wien, for the whole party to descend and search for our poor friends. Six in all passed the night on an ice ledge a metre wide on the range of the couloir. Next day almost the entire expedition gathered in the highest basin of the Zemu Glacier...