Word: garrets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every corner to keep murders down to about four per day. Bill Morris, a shabby little street-corner preacher, had been looking all over the world for just such a place. First thing he did was to pick four homeless ragamuffins off the street, install them in a garret. He taught them himself, begged money to feed and clothe them...
...Bill Morris became a great figure in Argentina, his schools the nation's foremost philanthropy. By last week there were 150,000 Argentine citizens who owed their education to him. In 55 Morris Schools 15,000 urchins were being trained. But the cycle which began in a Boca garret had almost swung full course...
...Warsaw her father had been a physics professor, her mother principal of a girls' school. Their daughter Marie had to flee to France because Russian officials frowned on her efforts to stimulate interest in the Polish language. While studying in Paris she lived in a bare garret, ate meals that cost half a franc a day, met a brooding, handsome young physics instructor whom she twitted for expressing astonishment at her learning, and then married. Becquerel's accidental discovery of radioactivity of uranium compounds in 1896 excited them greatly. They obtained a ton of pitchblende from the Austrian...
...some day becoming a writer were not dashed. She said to herself: "Perhaps I can become a writer if it depends only on the will and not on talent. For will I think I have." Because she was sure the Devil lurked in a certain corner in the garret she forced herself to pass by there every...
...papers do not report Mr. Cadmus' reactions. If he is wise, he will return to his garret and get to work on a painting of Washington at Valley Forge. Better men than he have learned that the pensioner must choke his muse, dry his tears, and paint, write, or chisel as he is told. Erasmus, for example, and Samuel Johnson. Only a Michelangelo could take a papal salary, tell the Cardinals to stick to their breviaries, and finish St. Peter's as he damn well pleased...