Word: tente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Women's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church stored gallons of pickled beets and great bowls of applesauce in the demonstration refrigerators of Rummels' appliance store on Main Street. At mid-morning the ladies began carrying the food to a special luncheon tent, along with 60 fried chickens, cords of fresh sweet corn, and the 100-egg birthday cake baked by Mrs. Harold Heick...
...collapsible, aluminum-frame tent that holds two sleeping bags and can be anchored atop an auto has been developed by Hagen-Felt Corp. of East Orange, N.J. The "CarTop Pullman," which weighs 76 Ibs., folds into a package 10 in. high and 5 ft. long when closed. Open, it is 4 ft. wide, 5 ft. high and 6 ft. 8 in. long. Price...
...three falls, Professional Boxer Francisco Escribano 1) demanded a rematch and threw "Bobo" three times, 2) found that the backers of the event had welshed on his $140 prize because "the bear always wins and never asks for money," 3) nobly dissuaded outraged circus spectators from burning down the tent, 4) attached the circus' box office for the amount of the prize, 5) stood a chance of becoming Bobo's owner as well as conqueror...
...Loeb has no connection, direct or indirect, with the management of the concern. She has just the same right to send a telegram as my cook or anyone else. As for Bill Loeb, he is still galled because he can't get his camel nose in this tent...
Compared to the splendid enterprise led by Hunt, the Izzard expedition was a joke. Against some 360 coolies, Izzard had five. He had no map or compass and his equipment consisted in part of two pairs of sneakers, a few pots, an old U.S. Army pup tent, an umbrella to ward off the leeches that fell like leaves from the trees. The incongruous team traveled fast and far over rough country carpeted with rhododendrons, orchids and magnolias. Izzard had never climbed anything more formidable than a flight of stairs, but he caught up to the British advance party after...