Word: hut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policeman stationed behind every tree. No photographs!" When the correspondents grew restless Major Humphrey Butler. Adjutant to Prince George, joined Inspector Evans in describing at length the prowess of His Royal Highness. "He can outwalk either of us," they said. "Once the Prince climbed to Prince Paul's hunting hut in an hour and 45 minutes. Even the native mountaineers consider it good going to make the hut in two hours and a quarter...
...certainly have no wish to appear an alarmist, hut I think the people should be told that this epidemic might become a serious thing. It appears that as influenza is passed from person to person, it becomes more and more deadly. . . . Since it appears that it increases in virulence as it travels, it should be brought home to every sufferer of the disease that for the community good, as well as for their own good, they should take every precaution to prevent its spread...
...last week the army of the Law, 5,000 strong, seemed no closer than it had been before to John Dillinger & Co. In the woods of northern Wisconsin George (''Baby Face") Nelson stayed three days in the hut of Ollie Catfish, a Chippewa, and the Federals got on his trail after he had left. In a swamp nearby, the Federals went gunning for another gangster whom they were "sure" they had surrounded. At a bank hold-up in Chicago, another member of the gang, Homer van Meter, was "identified." In another suburb three policemen overtook a car, were...
Dipping into the workers' quarter, the gale found an iron stove pipe that was loose in its stone collar, sticking out of a peasant's window. Angrily it ripped out the pipe, broke the window. Inside the hut, flame leaped high, licked the thatch ceiling, quickly gobbled up the whole hut. The gale pulled out the flame like taffy, spread it over the next hut and the next...
Little America, Antarctica, March 27 (Via MacKay Radio to the United Press)--Alone in the windswept fastnesses of the South Polar regions, Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd prepared today to spend the next six or seven months in a tiny hut 123 miles south of Little America...