Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Noted with dismay among the vagaries of the hurricane was its indiscriminate will in tearing down Harvard's shade trees but leaving the owl-eyed shack on Bow and Mt. Auburn without a scratch...
...time the drinks have arrived Sam and George have hit on a hobby -brushing up Sam's American history. As the series continues, Sam and George meet at Sam's house, at George's shack in the woods (this mail-order shelter quite natu rally sets them talking about the pioneer log cabin), and gradually they trace the rise of the Republic to world power and world responsibilities. A specially prepared history atlas of 17 maps is available to listeners...
Something Precious. "The cook shack was nothing but a piece of canvas meant to keep the rain off the stove on which hot rations were being prepared. . . . There was just one other piece of canvas in the picture. . . . It had a regular outline and apparently was something exceptionally precious, something which even in the circumstances had to be kept dry. We had just picked up our chow and were sitting around miserably starting to eat, when from this piece of canvas came the sound of music. It was strange music. It was jive-American jive. I never did find...
...slim, boyish-looking sergeant walked last week into the shabby front room of a shack on Pittsburgh's gritty North Side. He sat down, and with grave deliberation pulled off his boots, then broke out a plug of tobacco. "First chance I've had for a good chew since I got back," he said. Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly was home...
...City (pop. 300), where he lived in a dilapidated shack and worked for the gristmill at 75? a day, Elmer Mott popped the question to his boss's daughter, Ethel Trott. That was in 1908. Many years afterward, a court judge recorded Ethel's answer: "Yes, Elmer, but let us wait until you get something to marry...