Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they were willing bearers and they kept on going toward the sea, though shells were now coming down faster in the vicinity of the beach. At last they could go no farther, and they put me down in a semicircle of stones that offered very good shelter. There was another wounded man there...
...Nigeria, British West Africa, a village chief was recently giving shelter to two natives wanted on criminal charges. Around his village, the chief built a "Maginot Line" of thornbush to keep out the authorities who wished to arrest the wanted men. For the first time in the history of human conflict the mechanical bulldozer-a contraption which is used to level bumpy ground-was to go into battle with fighter cover...
...What should pop up in the Hudson Valley last week but Archeology itself. And the ferret that caused the pop was no Archeologist, Ph. D., but a Girl Scout. Ten-year-old Betty Lou Norris of Brooklyn and other Scouts had listened to lectures on Indians, went hunting rock shelters. In one shelter near New York's Kanawauke Lake, Scout Norris spied charred deer bones. She yipped to her friends; they yipped to William Henry Carr, head of Bear Mountain Trailside Museum. Inured to the "discoveries" of amateur archeologists, he went and had a skeptical look. Whereupon, knowing...
...polished Iroquois deer-bone awl six inches long, the first ever found in a Hudson Highlands shelter...
Roused from their museums, several eminent archeologists scurried to the rock shelter. Copenhagen's Helge Larsen, now a curator at New York City's American Museum of Natural History, was heard to observe that the 17th-Century Indians had a lower culture than did the Alaskan Eskimos whose remains he had just been studying. His colleague, Anthropologist Junius B. Bird, was pleased that the girls had made good use of the lectures they had heard...