Word: lively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dilliard has settled down in Associate Justice Frankfurter's former home in Cambridge, which he hopes will add inspiration to his studies of law at Harvard. The present occupant of the famous jurist's home reports that, "Frankfurter's home is a fine place to live...
...gone through grammar school; only 11% had finished high school. In age, 59.47% were 17 or 18. Nine per cent were Negroes segregated in their own camps (as are veterans; Indians usually work in reservation groups, live at home). Application for CCC jobs are cleared by local relief agencies through the U. S. Labor and War Departments. CCC juniors report, on acceptance, at an Army recruiting station, usually go directly to CCCamps, where they find a Reserve lieutenant or captain in command. There they begin group life in uniform. But they find no guardhouse, no drill, no saluting, no punishments...
...attic room under the eaves of Vienna's Hotel Metropole, headquarters of the Gestapo in Vienna. The correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post last fortnight reported it was practically certain that Dr. Schuschnigg would not be tried, more likely that he would soon be released to live, under strict guard, in a Vienna villa where he could be joined by his wife, whom he married by proxy while imprisoned...
...shape, nature has given it a variety of riches: underneath its parched yellow soil in the desolate northern region lie the world's most valuable deposits of nitrate and the second largest known deposits of copper; its pleasant, well-watered, fertile central area, where most of its people live, supplies more wheat, cattle and wine than Chile can use; and its rain-sodden southern provinces are rich in lumber, much of them still virgin territory and inhabited by half-savage Indians...
...less than three terrible minutes the upheavals had ended. But weakened structures continued to collapse and fires broke out. One heroic youngster, a night watchman at the main power plant, realizing that fallen live wires would electrocute many, rushed into the tottering building, jerked off the switch just as the roof smashed down...