Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Noyes, of Urbana, Ill., University High School; Frederic E. Pamp, of Roslindale, Mass., Roxbury Latin School; Allen E. Puckett, of Chicago Heights, Ill., Blom Township High School; Lee S. Rosenberg, of Cincinnati, O. Walnut Hills High School; Royal S. Schaaf, of New Yark, N. J. Exeter; Julius L. Shack, of Mattapan, Mass., Boston Latin School; and James Tobin, of Champaign Ill., University High School...
...stockade at Little Stone Arabia, Lana's first child was born dead. She turned against her husband, lived in dread of the future, while he became embittered, sullen, tried to forget his lost aspirations by exhausting himself hunting in the woods. They rented a one-room shack in German Flats, became the hired hands of a kindly, harsh-voiced old widow, until Gilbert was called out with the militia for an attack on the British near Fort Stanwix. In the ambush at Oriskany Gilbert was wounded, lost some of his friends, but found when he returned that...
...grow wild), vegetables and meats. Poultry can forage for itself and there is a plethora of fish and small game. And don't you believe there isn't ample time to garden, hunt and fish! I have myself lived in a house scarcely better-built than the shack pictured in TIME. It was a four-room box, tar-paper-roofed, and you could throw a cat through the cracks in the walls. We whitewashed it, papered it ourselves, and by the time my mother, a very frail woman, had planted simple flowers, the wretched place looked rather charming...
When President Angell went to Yale, the institution was a university largely by courtesy. The Medical School was almost literally a shack. Pathologist Milton Charles ("Nitzy") Winternitz became Dean of the Medical School in 1920. Encouraged by the new President, financed by Rockefeller and University money, he boosted the school in a decade to one of the nation's finest...
...father, a Hungarian who for years conducted a prosperous Manhattan importing & exporting business, Gellert began his social and musical investigations. For long trips he used a ramshackle old Jewett in which he kept a cot. More often he hiked through the backlands, stopping at sundown at some shack where he would ask the Negro owner if he could spend the night. Thus he won the confidence of Negroes, attended their baptisms, weddings, funerals, heard them sing songs they ordinarily would rather the white folk did not hear...