Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...district had five saloons to the block, two policemen on 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...
...last week news came of severe earthquakes in Western Turkey, the very region through which Host Kemal was about to escort Guest Pahlevi. Neither showed the slightest desire to cancel these plans. The royal Persian junket became an earnest inspection trip through the shaken area down to Smyrna with homeless families watching the Near East's two Strong...
...graduated from college between 1916 and 1922. School and college began the long process of deracination. ''Looking backwards, I feel that our whole training was involuntarily directed toward destroying whatever roots we had in the soil, toward eradicating our local and regional peculiarities, toward making us homeless citizens. . . . We came to feel that wisdom was an attribute of Greece and art of the Renaissance, that glamour belonged only to Paris or Vienna and that glory was confined to the dim past. . . . Essentially we were taught to regard culture as a veneer, a badge of class distinction...
Over the stockyards fence jumped the flames, began gnawing at the cheap little houses along Halsted Street. Three blocks of them had been licked up before 3,000 firemen and a shifting wind brought the conflagration under control. Toll: eight blocks of buildings; 1,200 homeless; 25 hospitalized; three missing; one dead. Verdict: worst since...
...Some strayed out on the bleak mainland, looking for shelter in the huts of the aboriginal Ainus. Sixty of them died in the snow. Officials began doing their terrible sums. They made it: 1,500 dead, 2,000 injured, 23,000 buildings destroyed. Of the living, 23,000 were homeless...