Word: helping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...food. In the evening we fried it in a large aluminum pan; in the morning we boiled it. We made our bed and sleeping bag of bearskin. To keep warmer we both slept in one bag, and, taken altogether, we were quite comfortable in our low hut. By the help of our lamps we succeeded in keeping the temperature inside at about freezing point. Our couch was formed of rough stones; we never quite succeeded in getting it even tolerably even, and our most important business throughout the winter was, therefore, to bend the body into the various positions...
...necessary for the Union to have guaranteed an increase of $1200 over its present income. The object of the meeting was to point out that the Union is a legitimate object of contribution and to offer an opportunity to all who are or have been interested in it to help guarantee such an increase...
...Powers stirred by the Armenian outrages have prevented further Turkish incursion, but in February the trouble began again. Before the Powers could interfere Greece sent 1500 men to Crete with orders to help the insurgents...
...outcome is difficult to predict, but whatever it may be, posterity cannot help admiring the courage and patriotism of the small Greek state in provoking war with a much stronger nation in the face of the Powers-an act of daring that has had no equal in modern if in ancient times...
...food. In the evening we fried it in a large aluminum pan; in the morning we boiled it. We made our bed and sleeping bag of bearskin. To keep warmer we both slept in one bag, and, taken altogether, we were quite comfortable in our low hut. By the help of our lamps we succeeded in keeping the temperature inside at about freezing point. Our couch was formed of rough stones; we never quite succeeded in getting it even tolerably even, and our most important business throughout the winter was, therefore, to bend the body into the various positions...