Word: hut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peasants. Insofar as socialization of the land means giant State fan and collectives, agriculture is socialized for the first time in history. The wooden plows and peasant strips-the crazy, antiquated setup by which a household cultivated a piece of "near" land close to the hut and a piece of "far" land distant from the village-are finished. Startling are the simple figures of mechanization-collective farmers operate 474,500 tractors, 150,000 combines, 170,000 motor trucks. They include 734,000 tractor drivers, 165,000 combine operators, 124,000 chauffeurs. Last year rural districts bought 225,000 tons...
Beirut to Elk City. Michael Shadid was born in a little stone hut on the olive-clad slopes of Mount Lebanon in Syria. He worked his way through the village school, later through the American University's high school in Beirut. Then young Michael went in steerage to New York, started peddling cheap jewelry. Within a few years he had saved $5,000, had combed almost every State east of the Rockies. But he wanted to be a doctor, so he tossed out his trinkets, went to medical school at Washington University in St. Louis. He graduated, finally settled...
Midway between society and self-improvement are groups like Our Reading Club of San Antonio (&Oldest in Texas/' a claim bitterly disputed by the Browning Club of Waco), which meets in an arty, 102-year-old Mexican hut to read carefully prepared papers on subjects like &Art in Literature.& In the same category belong Nashville's Friday Morning Literary Club, which began as the Tea and Repartee Club 43 years ago, San Francisco's Cap and Bells (200 members) which assembles in the swank Fairmont Hotel...
Although I disagree with Tom Corcoran's politics and policies, I do agree that he is and has been a remarkable and very capable young man. But that hut on Mt. Washington which Saturday Evening Post and TIME say he built "with his two hands"! About 1920 the Appalachian Mountain Club built an extension to their Lakes-of-the-Clouds hut on the side of Mt. Washington. . . . Tom was one of several who packed building material one and one-half miles down from the summit of the mountain-no easy task-and assisted in cooking for the mountain climbers...
...narrow bridge and fell into the river. When the boy was missed, the women wailed, the men put a consecrated candle on a piece of wood, let it float to midstream. Where it stopped, Perez dived and brought up the body. They took it to the Garcias' little hut, dressed it in a shoddy blue sailor-suit, put a crown of gold paper on its head...