Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peruvian, one Japanese, three U. S. Pan American-Grace Airways, Inc. lent an airliner to take a group of observers up 30,000 ft. into the crystal clarity of the substratosphere. At the other end of the eclipse path, the National Geographic Society-U. S. Navy Expedition set up camp on Canton Island in the Phoenix group, inhabited mainly by millions of rats (descended from shipwrecked ancestors). This party was equipped with a new material for measuring the polarization of the coronal light, a newly invented spinning filter for taking improved pictures of the corona, air conditioning equipment to keep...
...North Pole last week it rained, and the three big Soviet planes beside the base camp sank slightly into the mushy surface of the ice floe. The fourth plane, which came down 40 miles away fortnight ago, waited till the weather lifted, then joined the main party, bringing to 35 the number of Russians encamped serenely at the top of the world to investigate scientific phenomena and build a base for a transarctic airline (TIME, May 31). Weather reports were reaching Moscow four times daily and at week's end hirsute Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt's staff...
...engineering camp near Squam Lake, N. H., a surveying course will be given from June 26 to August 20 for engineering students...
...fourth round, Major A. J. Evans, whose famed book The Escaping Club tells how he got out of a German prison camp during the War, failed to escape from Wilford Wehrle of Racine, Wis. All square after being 3 down, the major needed a 12-ft. putt to halve the 18th hole. Addressing the ball, he moved it too slightly for anyone but himself to see, picked it up, conceded hole & match...
...Lumberjacks from Michigan and Wisconsin arrived in boots, gay plaids, several days' growth of beard. They sang such lumber camp ballads as Never Take the Horseshoe from the Door, danced jigs, reels, clogs. Average age of the Michigan group: 67. The Wisconsin lumberjacks played on a one-string Norwegian instrument called the salmodikon. Seventy-one-year-old Sven Svenson, in a chef's costume, chipped a two-inch piece of birchbark from a log, put it to his lips and played a thin, shrill tune on the chip...