Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kindling 150 feet into the air. When Inventor Barlow put five pounds in a dugout, set it off, earth and sand roared up to the sky, and the "whip-back" of air rushing into the vacuum created by the heat of the blast sucked out the sides of a shack 25 feet away. The force of the explosion was felt 1,000 feet away. The new test will show Army and Navy men whether a bigger charge can, like Joshua's trumpet, make armies tremble and cities crumble...
...finer imagery than that of the better-known "Mountaineer Poet," Jesse Stuart, Still makes his child's world as bright as a new dime. It was not a world in which dimes were common. On the barren slope above Blackjack Mine, Bracky Baldridge owned a garden patch, a shack with puncheon floors, a black birch tree. When the mines along the creek closed one March, Bracky's no-good cousins, Harl and Tibb Logan, came to live with the Baldridges. The dried beans ran out fast. Then soft, lazy Uncle Samp came and stayed, his thin grey mustache...
LOVE IN THE SUN-Leo Walmsley- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A girl named Dain, and "I," a young man, unmarried, without money, in love, take a shack and shift for themselves on the Cornish coast. The young man writes books, from which he gets too little money; the young woman works very hard and is very "gallant." The arduous simplicities of their living and their small adventures are described in great detail; they have a baby; they are very happy indeed. Warm readers will find the tale disarming; cool readers may wonder whether love so nearly cloudless is interesting enough...