Word: cellar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Every house was ruined. Of 38 horses, three were saved. Lenino's 70 cows were evacuated to the Urals; there are only 15 now. The collective barn was the first building to be restored. Next to the barn was a steaming manure pile and a thickly thatched vegetable cellar with Lenino's treasure-40 tons of seed potatoes. But Lenino would see little of the profits. While I was in Moscow, the Soviet state was buying potatoes at $5.84 a ton and selling them at $220 in ration stores, at $1,240 in "commercial" (unrationed) ones. (In Russia...
Paced by Bucky Harrison both on the mound and at the plate, the Kirkland-Leverett Deacons opened the summer intramural baseball season yesterday by shutting out a disorganized Eliot nine 4 to 0. The losers will have a chance to avoid the cellar position in the three team league, however, when they meet the Adams-Dunster combination tomorrow...
...student veterans did not expect this happy state of affairs to last long. They expected a depression, or at least a recession. That was why they were running-to get in out of the storm. They were fairly confident that they would at least make the storm cellar. Harry Brandt, of Indiana U., already had a job as staff executive in the Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce. Did Harry expect to succeed...
...Ithacans, boasting the best team batting average in the league--a healthy 305 before its twin bill with Yale--moved out of the cellar at New Haven yesterday as a result of an even split with the Elis. The Crimson now lies a half-game behind the Bulldogs, and two Harvard victories today, coupled with a win by Penn over Yale at Philadelphia, would return Coach Dolph Samborski's forces to first place...
...Harrises were involved, one might be brutally indifferent. ... [But] what is involved far transcends the fate of some sordid offender. . . . How can there be freedom of thought or freedom of speech or freedom of religion if the police can, without warrant, search your house and mine from garret to cellar merely because they are executing a warrant of arrest? . . . Yesterday the justifying document was an illicit ration book, tomorrow it may be some suspect piece of literature...