Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the very centre of Washington's councils and who knows at least as many of Franklin Roosevelt's secrets as Lord Halifax knows of his Prime Minister's. The British press promptly hailed New Dealer Hopkins for refusing to bed in a London air-raid shelter, for getting up early and eating "a good breakfast with some good American coffee" in his room at Claridge's, for taking good-humoredly his British valet's suggestion that he buy plenty of English-type white shirts without attached collars and get himself some long woolen underwear...
...Fiddler Jenö Hubay taught him; Fiddler Joseph Joachim, the 19th Century's greatest, pronounced him a comer. He made his debut at 13. Szigeti has spent most of his musical life in London and Paris-where he had to leave most of his possessions in a bombproof shelter...
...Civil War, one of the Meharry brothers was carting grist from the mill to his midwestern farm, when his wagon bogged down in the mud. A Negro living nearby went to his rescue, but night fell on an unbudged wagon. So Meharry accepted the Negro's offer of shelter in his hut. Next morning they freed the wagon. Said the pious farmer to his helper: "I have no money to repay your great kindness. But I hope some day to be able to do something for you and your people." There were five Meharry brothers: Alexander, Hugh, Samuel, Jesse...
...study of fact-relationships, not of facts. Says Author Peattie: "What it is, is a correlation between sciences. ... If one must classify it, call it a philosophy." Geography, Peattie thinks, nudged mankind into history. The human mind had to evolve to meet ice-age problems of finding shelter, food, defense, and has probably not progressed since the great glacier withdrew. Then nomadic men settled in the grasslands of the Nile, Euphrates, Yangtze, etc., to become tillers and develop cultures. Out of the nomadic, pastoral life of the early Jews grew the symbolism of their religion and of Christianity...
...distinctions which have been such an unhappy feature of British civilization. To their surprise rich and poor, gentlemen's some and the sons of artisans, discovered that they were very much the same sort of people. The common danger, the propinquity into which all are forced when they take shelter at night against bombardment, the mutual help when persons lie dead or wounded all about and houses are destroyed and all possessions lost, have united the nation in a new sympathy and comradeship. When your Mr. Kennedy said that democracy was dead in Britain he didn't know what...