Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yoshiko Tanigawa, 22, a Nisei girl who spent 20 months at the Tule Lake detention camp during the war, was commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps, went on duty at the Long Beach, Calif. Naval Hospital. She is the U.S Navy's only Japanese-American officer...
...Offered two weeks at the Children's Aid Society summer camp, 12-year-old Mike Kivatisky, of Manhattan's upper East Side, politely declined. He explained that in Manhattan he could swim at one of the city's pools, play baseball in Central Park or a nearby vacant lot, get up when he wanted to. Said Mike: "Everything I can do at camp, I can do right down here. But here I can do it oftener...
...headquarters for his Jewish "Special Night Squads" in the hilltop Jewish settlement of Ein Harod, facing Mount Gilboa. He considered that Israel's King Saul should have pitched his camp in the same spot, instead of in the valley below. In time, Wingate's "S.N.S." grew into Haganah's shock troops, Palmach. But that was after Wingate's day. The British government, which thought him too friendly to the Zionists, recalled him from Palestine...
...brass of science and their camp followers, 800 strong, trooped up California's Palomar Mountain last week to dedicate man's newest wonder, the 200-inch telescope. They were told that the giant eye would first be turned on the distant nebulae to test Astronomer Edwin Hubble's theory of the exploding universe. Dr. Hubble's first look at the Corona Borealis cluster (nebulae 120 million light-years away) astounded him. "We had hoped," said Hubble, "that the 200-inch would be this good...
...physical set-up at the Connecticut training camp is of comparatively recent inception, being the result of a 1929 decision by a group of "Old Blues" who felt that the old buildings were inadequate. Now a string of white shingled structures--three dwellings, a dinning hall, and a boathouse--grace the secluded slopes less than a mile south of Yale's head-quarters at Gale's Ferry...