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Word: camped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Butch Jordan the Crimson has itself a paradox for a line coach. He is a paradox in personality, for it is not often that one finds a Big Nine heavyweight wrestling champion who doubles as a family man and a part-time camp councillor. He is a paradox as a coach, for he teaches the Michigan philosophy of speedy, quick line play, but himself is the epitome of the classic block-of-granite tackle...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Football, Basketball, Wrestling; All In Butch Jordan's Repertoire | 11/18/1948 | See Source »

...last with the Maize and Blue. That winter he won the Big Nine Conference heavyweight wrestling championship for the first time and was elected captain for the following year. As if that weren't enough to keep him busy, he also took on the task of running a day camp for boys, a job he continued after graduation by running a camp in Wyoming during the summer for four years...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Football, Basketball, Wrestling; All In Butch Jordan's Repertoire | 11/18/1948 | See Source »

There were other improvements over the rude camp life of World War II. Food was better, mud and duckboards were missing, and television sets, golf courses and swimming pools were close at hand. But many an old soldier, eyeing the young inductees, had an idea that they would soon find themselves in the Same Old Army anyhow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Gently, Sergeant, Gently | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...paid employees, 63 did waitress work, 54 were office workers, 41 had child care or group work, and 40 had camp jobs. Sales work, factories, hospitals and newspaper or publication work were other large sources of employment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Vacation Job Seekers Met Stiff Competition | 11/9/1948 | See Source »

...strategy by mixing it with politics. He has wasted American equipment by sending his recruits into the field after only a month of training. Most important, he has relied more and more heavily on the extreme reactionary element in his party, thus driving the liberal intellectuals into the communist camp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chinese Puzzle | 11/6/1948 | See Source »

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