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...month. With too much time on his hands, he quit to start his own tool shop in a building he constructed. In the first several months, he did exactly $18 worth of business. He was forced to move his bride out of their comfortable home into a shack until the tide turned...
...yards against a handful of the prophet's followers. Euclides da Cunha was an army engineer and newspaper correspondent who went through the fighting and wrote his masterpiece as an "involuntary attack" on the Brazilian army. He wrote it at night, building bridges by day, and the wooden shack in which he composed it, beside his bridge over the Rio Pardo, is a venerated Brazilian relic. A plea for Brazilian unity, it is essentially an encyclopedia, almost as difficult reading as one, with its pages of geology as toilsome as the mountain they describe, its descriptions of droughts...
...engineering, switched to an animal husbandry course. Then he gave up college altogether: tak ing care of his mink left him little time for study. Having located an ideal U.S. mink-raising area by study of rainfall and temperature charts, he took his bride to a two-room shack on Wisconsin's Suamico River in 1934 and set up in business with 100 mink and $383. Soon he was experimenting with mutations...
Second only to Harvard Square's Boston Elevated shack, the hideous ibis-nest at Mt. Auburn and Bow is entering its thirty-fifth year as a notorious local traffic hazard. An attempt to eject the occupants and remove the monstrosity from the middle of a public thoroughfare was foiled by camouflaging it as an automobile accident, and the Building Commission has been stalled off by leaning the shaky south wall so that it is supported by the others. It is thus quite possible that the Lampoon Building will stand for at least another year...
...Being "taken to see the pigs" means a trip to a little shack near the camp hogpen. There "Big Jim" Bryant, a 7 ft. 2½ in., 300-lb. guard, holds the door shut while Warden Clay administers a whipping-up to 50 lashes-with a rubber hose...