Word: children
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish refugees in France (82,500 militiamen, 100,000 old men, women & children) 40,500 have been absorbed by industry, agriculture and public works projects, the remaining 142,000 are in concentration camps. Almost certainly no refugees have been accepted in the French fighting forces...
...ship's hospital Dr. Thomas Fister was sent spinning with bottles, instruments, in water up to his knees, staggered back to aid the engine-room storekeeper, whose appendix he had just removed. Paul van Zeeland, former Premier of Belgium, in his cabin with his wife and four children, was knocked unconscious. A kettle of boiling water and grease engulfed Fred Stover, chief butcher. Mrs. Tatiana Sztybel, refugee from the siege of Warsaw, was hurled against a wall like a rag doll, left moaning with a badly injured spine. In the smoking room, where water poured through shattered ports...
...sixth of the population of Finland had fled from their homes last week, terrified lest a Russian invasion should follow up the still secret demands of Joseph Stalin. Peasants abandoned their farms along the Soviet frontier, the men joining the Finnish Army, the women and children plodding on foot to refugee camps in the interior. They had to walk because the Army was obliged to seize all horses and carts in the frontier districts for its service of supply. Most of the fleeing refugees left behind all their possessions, except what they could carry in a few bundles, but occasionally...
...summers in Nova Scotia, his winters in a Manhattan apartment with his youngest daughter. His favorite hobby is solving acrostic puzzles with his family. He also likes to read detective stories, fancies himself as a farmer. But John Dewey spends most of his time thinking. Father of six children (two died young and he adopted another), he early learned to concentrate on his work amidst domestic bustle. To his classes he lectured in a monotonous voice, made no rhetorical effort whatever to interest his audience. Once, after droning on to graduate students for three solid hours on the meaning...
...most inadequate of answers is that we Americans are neutral and, therefore, need do nothing whatever about it. If that were proposed as an explanation of why one did nothing when he saw women and children tortured by fire, or a passerby of whom he had no knowledge, being assaulted by a bandit within plain sight, we should have but one comment to make and that comment would not be very flattering...