Word: huts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week many a Californian journeyed to the Theosophical Society's estate near Ojai where Krishnamurti lives in a hut. Lately returned from a lecture tour of Mexico and South America, the abdicated Messiah delivered the Society's triennial series of talks, will soon depart for more talks in Holland where the Society owns an estate at Ommen...
...again to crowded Moscow from his bleak hut on the Donbas Steppe last week went famed Alexei Stakhanov (TIME, Dec. 16), the shrewd Soviet coal miner who devised a method ("Stakhanovism'') for speeding up the toil of Russian workers. A nationwide intensive labor speed-up for ten days had been decreed by Dictator Joseph Stalin, and at its climax amid great Moscow excitement Stakhanov received the highest Soviet decoration, the Order of Lenin...
Last week Winthrop House's Standish quadrangle witnessed the jamboree of the Polar Bare Club. This organization owes its inception to the scarcity of water a year ago last Christmas at the Mountaineering Club's hut on Mt. Washington...
...wealthy and powerful family, a Christian humanist, young Baron Ishimoto became a mining engineer, took his inexperienced bride to the grimy coal fields of western Japan. There they lived for two and a half years on an equal footing with other employes, housed in a miserable thatched hut, on the Baron's salary of $25 per month. Shidzué saw a gas explosion, went into the dangerous mines where naked men and half-naked women crawled like animals, watched sick children left alone until they coughed themselves to death...
...magazine reporter, I have time & time again felt the cool breath of informed disdain, however long and conscientiously I may have striven to report accurately and sympathetically. If this fate were peculiar to me, it could be accounted for quite handily upon grounds of dunderheadedness and dissipated I.Q. Hut since I have few reporter or editorial acquaintances who have escaped such visitations, I gather that it is a perennial problem, not only to the trades of journalism, but to all allied or competitive industries of public entertainment...