Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...making available a total of $2,000,000, the remainder having come from the Rockefeller Foundation. President Angell believes that this building will be ready for use before the next academic year, despite a considerable delay caused by the refusal of a cobbler, Giacomo Como, to vacate a small shack until his lease had expired. An agreement was reached by which he will house his shop in another place, rent free...
Picturesque Jan Christiaan Smuts was on hand in Cape Town for the Parliamentary fray, last week, having come in from his tiny, iron-roofed shack on the veldt near Pretoria. There he recently completed, in philosophical mood, a work called Holism, setting forth "a philosophy of life reconciling everything within the Universe...
Near sandy Henryetta, Okla. (pop. 6,000), in the Old Indian Territory, Jackson Barnett, full-blooded Creek, worked his 160-acre allotment by day, rested his tired bones in a not-too-clean four-room shack by night. He was old#&151;60, maybe 70-he didn't know exactly. He was poor. He was illiterate. But he was a Govern-ment ward and he had learned that, so long as he stayed a good Indian, the Govern-ment would provide...
...strange men poking around his farm. They tapped the ground and from down below where you bury people, oil flowed out. Jackson's bronzed face wrinkled in astonishment. His neighbors told him he was rich. That made him grin. He continued to live in his shack and tend his garden. In far-off Washington a ledger under his name began to show mounting figures of royalty oil profits...
Near Cairo, Egypt, last week, the police commandant discovered, living alone in a six-foot shack, an Arab who said he was born at the opening of the American Revolution (153 years ago) and who remembered the massacre of the Mamelukes by Mohammed...