Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond spent yesterday morning in a vain effort to solve the problem of his rooming accommodations for this year. The best location, judged from a physical standpoint, is the pump shack by Appleton Canyon in the Yard. But there the miniature landscape even now is cluttered by a few early Freshmen. One of them asked Mr. Apted, who was loitering around, if he would care to join him in a round of peewee golf; freshmen must band together, you know, we're all Harvard...
Alone in a shack on the White River, Ariz., four miles from the Apache reservation, lived Henrietta Schmerler, 23, a New York girl who wanted to learn Indian tribal secrets. A brilliant student of anthropology and ethnology at Columbia University under famed Professor Franz Boas, she had been granted a fellowship to go west and study red men in situ...
...found the body of Student Schmerler. She had been stabbed, beaten, choked, thrown into the deep ravine. A few days before, she was said to have set out with Apache Claude Gilbert, 25, to attend a native dance at White River. Alarmed at her long absence from her shack, a white deputy sheriff organized a posse of Indians. They brought back the battered corpse fastened to the back of a horse...
Fifty times as big as Denmark is Denmark's only colony, Greenland. (Iceland is an independent kingdom that merely happens to have the same King as Den-mark.) In recent warm summers parties of Norwegian hunters have made frequent trips to East Greenland, built little shack settlements there. The Danish-Norwegian problem first boiled over more than a month ago when a semi-official Norwegian body known as the Arctic Council suddenly announced that Denmark was about to send an expedition to explore East Greenland, sounded an alarm that the time had come for Norway to stake and beflag...
...children still live in the country. This is, of course, simply a reaction of economic law. In the country children are a financial asset; in the city they are a liability." City children have every advantage, but "the son of the farmer goes to school in a shack, has a teacher who may not even have been to high school. . . . The State must actually favor the country child or take over the whole responsibility for education." (Dr. Sutton...