Word: tenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...company, bagging big game for the Brooklyn Museum. This summer she too will be in Africa again, a quiet, gray-haired woman of slight physique serving science in African jungles. By day, on the march, she wears pith helmet, riding breeches, puttees; in the evening, has her boudoir tent pitched, changes to a silk negligee...
...speakers was that the present athletic program has failed to live up to what they termed the "democratic ideal". The traditional figure of the tall wagging the dog was discarded by the losers for one of more ancient derivation, that of the camel crowding the Arab out of his tent...
David plays for Saul in his tent; the music runs in a march in three-four time, soars to the song of the shepherd-the Twenty-Third Psalm. In the fight with Goliath, trumpets blare in two keys at once...
...Soviet Government, admitted atheists, have made a determined assault upon the Orthodox Church by suppressive measures and by launching the rival "laving Church." The great mass of the peasantry have quietly gone on worshipping in the same way as before. Now the Government has surrendered to the ex tent of adopting a laissez-faire policy toward religion. In this, as in countless other ways, the stabilizing weight of the great mass of the people is felt...
...dollar coach and the burly athlete throwing into complete eclipse the lecture room, the instructor, and the students. Football is very well, in its place. But it is not, after all, the be-all and the end-all of college life. The camel should not be given the entire tent...