Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suppose you had taken refuge from some pursuing calamity in a big metropolitan department store, and by some strange chance found it completely deserted. Suppose that for days on end nobody came to disturb you, as though no one but yourself were left in the world. And then suppose that...
France. With rare exceptions no hotel in France is making money and the swank Claridge, Plaza-Athénée and George V in Paris have suffered most of all. What little tourist trade there was last summer took refuge in smaller, cheaper places. French prices are still high even in...
Very different in character are the works of Kandinsky and Klee. The former seeks a refuge from modern life through a play of abstract form and colour. Squares, triangles and circles carefully arranged make balanced colour compositions that gladden the eye but never attack the intellect or the emotions. Klee...
A fire which broke out-in the Converse Laboratories gave a Harvard Research student several anxious moments yesterday morning. Alone on the third floor with his apparatus the aspiring chemist was proceeding with his experiments when a sudden blaze broke out and he was forced to take refuge.
In December 1789, eight of the Bounty mutineers, under their leader, Fletcher Christian, with 18 Polynesian natives, landed on Pitcairn's Island. Tiny (two miles by one) but isolated and fertile, it looked like a safe refuge from the long arm of the British Government. Safe in that respect...