Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...described as "fireproof, earthquake-proof, and reasonably protected against the incendiary bomb." The fire inspector looked the place over and classified it in the same category as a bank vault. And now, the staff at its parvenu neighbor Lamont, (which the Houghton people refer to as "Uncle Tom's Cabin"), call it the "Jewel Box." For, besides being the University's most sumptuous bookshelf, Houghton acts as show case and safe deposit vault for one of the world's finest collections of rare books and documents...
Besides the regular Sunday trips, IOCA has planned several week-end ski fests, including a Winter Carnival in February at the Dartmouth Outing Club cabin on Mount Moosilauke, Warren, New Hampshire...
...Club, from which Harvard's regular ski team is selected, has a cabin near Pinkham Notch, with all facilities and a 25 man capacity. The Club itself is limited to 75 members a year...
...clock one morning a fortnight ago. On the way out of the harbor they hit a rock and stove in the ship's plates. Many of the mattresses got soaked. The passengers slept huddled in corners. The air was hot and fetid in the packed cabin, and drinking water ran low and thirst high long before the five-day trip to Cork was over...
...live-wire group that runs a cabin on Mt. Washington and a library back home, and diffuses over the countryside at regularly stated intervals in search of half-inch fingerholds on half-mile cliffs. When beginners are invited along on these trips as they are every Sunday for instruction--the experience can be traumatic...