Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prison Camp, preferred to take the desperate chance of escape rather than hope for release. Weak from scurvy and dysentery, Konarski told correspondents...
...camp contains about 32,000 prisoners. They are kept there until death results from hard work, bad food and consequent sickness. I met two American citizens in the camp, Arthur Hanley, a chemical engineer from California, and Edward Rose, a machinist from Boston, Mass. They said they came to Russia in 1921 as volunteer workers. Rose said he was arrested in Leningrad in 1923. Hanley was caught trying to escape from Russia to Latvia in 1925. Each was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, but, although they have served out their sentences, they are still being held. They told...
...rate of sixty miles an hour. It gave him a feeling of going places, a thrill that comes from the sense of speed and the feeling that one is utterly helpless to do anything about it save be carried along. He let himself down into the little camp chair on the platform, pulled his coat tightly around his knees to keep off the chill gusts of wind, and relaxed...
...Haven the Vagabond got up from his camp stool on the platform and went into the warm club car. He did not care for New Haven, somehow. He could read a magazine the rest of the way down...
...year old blonde Princess, accompanied by her wrestler husband, Bob Gregory (pronounced ughh), and numerous Yard cops, policemen, and camp followers, was being conducted on an unannounced tour of the Library, but word of her presence spread quickly. From all parts of the building research men came running some with card catalogue trays in their hands, and finally located the Princess on the top floor examining the theatre collection...