Word: hosteling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prevented from supplying markets, Government officials had to suspend vital work, laborers could do nothing after raids but gorge and go to sleep. Citizens tried to leave town, but were caught by new raids before they could get away. Chungking's foreign newsmen were inconvenienced when the Press Hostel-their home and office-crumbled under three direct hits. Terrific August heat made the dugouts too small and too smelly...
...known the employees' plan is the first such group "hostel" project to be put into operation for the refugee children in the United States...
...children are to be drawn from families in the lower income levels living in the British danger zones. First announcement of the hostel plan was sent out today to the 3,000 non-faculty employees by the employee committee...
High on a hill above the hurrying Kialing River, far enough outside Chungking town to be safe from air raids, sits the new Visitor's Hostel-a guest house to accommodate the steady stream of foreigners passing through the capital. On New Year's Eve, China's stocky, genteel, old-style Minister of Finance Dr. H. H. Rung gave a party there for the city's cosmopolite society-foreign diplomats, newspapermen, missionaries, native officials. The guests grew mellow on mild-tasting, brain-sieging Yellow Wine...