Word: tented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Debutantes Fill Tent...
Hyde and Edmund held forth in a small olive-green tent, and knuckled down to the chirosophy, or palmistry, of the evening, determining the mental aptitude, if any, of debutantes who crowded their shelter...
...successfully cleared their first hurdle on the second half of their schedule when they repulsed the challenge of a hard-fighting Northeastern five 49 to 44 in the Indoor Athletic Building Tuesday night, but the real test for them will come at Hanover when they invade the Indians' Carnival tent Saturday...
...more than a month Wall Street and Washington have heard that roly-poly Howard Hopson, kingpin of $1,038,000,000 Associated Gas & Electric Co., was so ill he was under an oxygen tent. Since Mr. Hopson has often been "ill" when the Government wanted him for hearings and investigations of his fabulous operations, many a cynic wondered whether the utility magnate's latest indisposition was a portent of further trouble...
...Thus, when he describes the opening scene: "A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment. Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which had the whole heath for its floor," the Vagabond gets one definite mental picture, while you may get an entirely different impression. Vag's mental picture of tents is always biased by a very rainy camping trip last summer. When Vag hears of lents, it has just...