Word: hut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Projected to increase Stillman's present 65-bed capacity by at least 50 beds, plans for a Quonset hut installation connecting with the main building were still in the hands of Provost Buck yesterday but should be carried out by September, according to Dr. Bock...
...much as I can gather about them in the papers and your magazine, seems to more interested in finding a central recreation spot than in mending the world's problems. . . . Why not set up a Quonset hut for them with hard chairs and with windows overlooking one of the cemeteries of Iwo Jima? Maybe they'd forget their country clubs and get down to business...
...quartered 1,866 veterans in a powder plant 35 miles from the campus, 1,660 more at an Army airfield. Columbia established a "trailer campus," charging veterans for parking space but not for rent. At Rhode Island State, 28 Quonsets on Vet Row were jammed, eleven students to a hut. The president of Ohio's Marietta College took in boarders. Some hardy students at U.C.L.A. slept in all-night movies and parked cars...
...Face It famous. In this, while triple-tonguing his "de-geet gat giddle," Kaye mimicked an inductee pleading for deferment because of bad ears, flat feet, ulcers, decayed teeth; took him into training with a few key words like "Shad-ap!" (indicating a tough top sergeant) or "hut, tut, t'ree, fo" (for long marches). But mostly it was all "riddle-de biddle, de reep...
...Then came the 24th Division to Matsuyama. Kindhearted G.I.s brought the Spanish missionary food and clothing. One lieutenant from the Engineers rounded up a few volunteers, built a hut from scrap lumber and installed a makeshift stove. From somewhere an Army cot and blankets for the nuns appeared. Best of all, a few bags of Australian flour were produced. . . . Father Perez faced the winter with confidence...