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Word: bivouac (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picked shots. Over their shoulders were slung rifles with well-oiled firing chambers, speckless bores. The walnut stocks were worn, rubbed to an oily, deep brown. Across their backs were stretched bandoleers full of sharp-nosed cartridges. Thousands of rounds of ammunition lay in neat cases around them. To bivouac the force, peaked, tan canvas service tents were thrown up along orderly streets. To many of the riflemen tenting was new. No novelty was it for 1,000 of the force, members of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, who had come from posts as far as Panama, China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Soldiers & Civilians | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...Colonel Nobile, to conduct the Norge to Spitzbergen as soon as weather favored. There the chiefs will join her for the great adventure of flying over uncharted white wastes to Nome, Alaska. The base ship Hobby reached Spitzbergen a fortnight ago laden with materials for the Norge's northern bivouac and mooring mast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Pole-Flyers | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

...Sounds like a big mosquito," grumbled the other. Realizing that their bivouac was near the route of the New York-Chicago Night Air Mail, she sat up to look, but even as she stared into the vague heavens, the buzzing stopped, the eye winked and began to circle lower and lower until it came to rest at the other end of the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mishap | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

Digging into the snow by night, mushing painfully on "moderately" frostbitten feet by day, the clamberers wended down as they had wended up, through their advance camp on a ridge at 18,500 ft. down to a bivouac in Windy Camp, on down through the frosted portcullis of McCarthy Gap to the foot of King Col Massif, to Cascade (Alaska), to Ogilvie Glacier, to Walsh, to Chitina (where bears had robbed their food caches), to Trail End, to Kubrick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Clamberers | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

...well into the dawn, when newspaper photographers swarmed in to begin the new day with pictures. Sleepy though he was, Pilot Lincoln Ellsworth of Manhattan obligingly posed in the cockpit of the N-25, Rolls-Royce-motored seaplane which had carried the party back to Spitsbergen from a forced bivouac on the ice-floes 157 miles from the Pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Polar Pilgrims: Jul. 13, 1925 | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

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