Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haile Selassie's day the practice, when somebody of importance had been killed or something of great value had been stolen, was to round up the entire neighboring population and keep them in an improvised concentration camp, if necessary for months, until they finally arrived among themselves at a decision of who was to blame and produced the miscreants to the Imperial Government...
...first transatlantic wireless. At St. Johns, 18 years ago, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown took off with the first mail to be flown across the Atlantic. Last week, 150 miles northwest of St. Johns near Botwood, in the dense woods at Hattie's Camp, 350 men were busy carving out a square mile which is to be North America's first transatlantic flying field...
Hattie's Camp was chosen by Britain's Air Ministry because of the clear approaches on all sides. Last May work began on four huge runways, two of which are nearing completion. One will be a mile long, 1,200 ft. wide, the others 4,500 ft. long, 600 ft. wide. All will be covered with asphalt and an extra mile of approach will be cleared at each end. All runways will have a flushing apparatus to clear away snow. Two miles away at Gander Lake, which is said to be ice-free all year, is a clearing...
...County in northwest Missouri and the only doctor in the village of Barnard, where he was born. In Barnard lived a minor politician who weighed 427 lb. when he died last year, and a 19-year-old boy who was 7 ft. tall when he went to a CCC camp last season. Those divergents from the norms of humanity started Dr. Humberd, 40, a curly-headed bookworm, on a study of gigantism. He has hats, shoes, rings and other souvenirs of most of the circus giants of the U. S. (see p. 45), but nothing so meticulous as his record...
Having Wonderful Time (by Arthur Kober; Marc Connelly, producer), the season's pleasantest institutional drama, is laid in one of the numerous cheap summer camps for New York Jews which dot the Berkshires. Those who have not visited such a resort as Camp Kare-Free may already be familiar with the nature of its patrons through Arthur Kober's piteous, humorous, sharply observed New Yorker reports, collected in book form as Thunder over The Bronx, on the year-round behavior of one-sixth of New York City's population...