Word: hut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baltimore last week arrived the steamship City of Elwood with one python. When the City of Elwood left Shanghai it had two pythons aboard. One escaped in Manila, wandered ashore. Near a native's hut it saw a pig, which it swallowed. The pig was tied to the hut. Three days later the native found the python dying of indigestion...
...which people ate to live, lived to drink and drank to forget living. In the first flush of their romance Vondorn takes up drinking again, and with that his tale is as good as told. How he and Juno run off to live and decay together in a hut in the desert, how Vondorn slaves at his book, how he visits the nearby Beldoro Observatory, prepares to take up residence with Juno there, is only the long prelude to the ultimate cough that wafts him to sleep under death's starless coverlid...
Attired in rough garb Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of the Philippines, stopped at a farm hut near the tip of Luzon, solicitously asked the native farmwife how her hens were laying. The woman replied they were not laying at all, offered the Governor a coin worth 10? so that he might buy eggs in the village...
...wither or to work their way out. She writes in judgment, like the blight; and God (three parts machinery, one part Dix) lends her a helping hand. The finger of water that had unaccountably appeared in the canyon's bed was not for nought. Asleep in a hut up the canyon, where they have gone for lack of houseroom, Cornelia, Rosamond, Isabel are warned by a dog's bark, just in time to watch the moving finger begin to writhe and write...
...Starcevo vestiges of several prehistoric periods were observed, ranging from the early New Stone Age through the Bronze and Iron Ages. Foundations of hut dwellings, skeletal and cremated graves, as well as quantities of ceramics, bone and stone artefacts, and a few metal objects, comprised the major finds. The Neolithic layer of the site proved to be the most important. Its yield of fine painted pottery was particularly surprising to the excavators...