Word: equipment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surprising that no Harvard youth has had the bright idea of asking Mr. Harkness to equip each of the new Houses with a commodious garage, to be free, of course, to residents. Surely, the use of an automobile is as necessary to the modern student as a library! Without it, what can he possibly do in his spare hours and week-ends? Must he sit around his room all the time reading books? Or, if he wishes a little exercise, must he WALK to Soldiers field? If he wants to go to a show in Boston must he patronize...
During the War, Friends Toklas & Stein tried to live in Paris as if nothing was happening ; when that became impossible they went to Mallorca. The attack on Verdun brought them back to Paris, where they decided to equip and drive a Ford truck for the American Fund for French Wounded. Miss Stein did the driving, with fair success. (She never learned how to back very well.) The War over, they settled down again to Art. By this time Gertrude Stein's Three Lives (published in 1909) had given her a reputation among young U. S. writers. "Gertrude Stein...
...walls and fences broke out in a rash of red-lettered posters: OPPOSE AMERICAN INTERVENTION. To the delight of U. S. correspondents, plans for a magnificent "Red Riot" leaked out three days too soon. According to the scheme Dictator Machado's ever useful Porra (strongarm squad) was to equip a mob of hoodlums with sticks, red flags, Communist banners. Just as the Peten was warping in to its berth the "Communists" would assemble at the quayside with hideous cries and frightening gestures. At the proper dramatic instant up would rush a squad of well-groomed police to disperse...
Under the Roosevelt plan the Department of Labor would recruit city jobless from municipal lodging houses, breadlines and relief agencies, enlisting them in a Civilian Conservation Corps for one year. The War Department would concentrate recruits at Army camps, weed out the physically unfit, equip the rest with rough civilian clothes and give them several weeks' disciplinary training before turning them over in organized units to the Department of Agriculture for transportation to the national forests. For work in the woods members of the C. C. C. would be paid not more than $1 per day, plus food, shelter...
...with Italy (and "revenge" on France) caused German newsorgans of all sorts to chime in. "The French treat the Chancellor of Austria like a Negro chieftain!" stormed Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. "Nobody protested," cried the Catholic Reichspost, "when in 1932 Czechoslovakia sent to Jugoslavia through Austria enough arms alone to equip several army corps!" Amid frenzied pother the Austrian Cabinet of Chancellor Dollfus tottered, and excited Europe scarcely had time to be alarmed last week by sly Dr. Benes' new Great Power...