Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flat tire, first of the year, was what President Hoover's automobile got last week as it carried him from his Rapidan camp back to the White House. At the camp remained Herbert Hoover Jr. According to Dr. Joel T. Boone, Herbert Hoover Jr. has tuberculosis in its initial stage. The lung lesion is small, full recovery is anticipated. (¶To be U. S. Minister to Liberia President Hoover last week, as custom dictated, appointed a Negro, Charles E. Mitchell, business manager of the West Virginia State College for Negroes...
...Wishery camp [on the Wishery River] consists of about 27 sq. mi. of Siberian territory. Within this area were about 17 convict stations and barracks...
...many occasions I would hear the cries of girls in various parts of the camp. But nothing could be done. The guards were armed and the prisoners were cowed into a state of hopeless subjection. While I was at Wishery six girl prisoners gave birth to infants...
...whaler near the entrance to Lancaster Sound (west of Baffin Bay) on July 26, 1845. England grew alarmed at their continued disappearance, sent out rescue parties which explored thousands of arctic miles, succeeded in finding traces of the lost expedition. Fourteen years after Franklin's disappearance the camp of the expedition was located on the island and a diary found which told of their meeting with great ice packs. All their efforts to reach a Hudson's Bay Co.'s settlement were frustrated by the terrific northern gales with which they were not fitted to cope...
Reporter Stubbendorff's party had to fight off polar bears, shot five while they collected from the camp a sledge, oars, snowshoes, remnants of the balloon basket, boats, unopened food tins, ammunition, sleeping bag, instruments, clothing, a roll of exposed photograph film, a gold fruit knife, medicines, a white dress-cravat, etc. etc. Then they found a skull, probably that of Andrée.* But best of all they found Strindberg's diary...