Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rain kept the ball teams inactive yesterday, but it didn't daunt the Glee Club, who warbled through their program on schedule at 7 o'clock last night in the shelter of the Widener roof, while most of the audience shivered and dripped in a driving rain...
...landslide crashed on and nearly buried a bus whose 26 passengers amazingly escaped injury. At Glendale, floodwaters and mud wrecked a $1,000,000 Government flood control project. Meanwhile, the Red Cross took charge of relief work. At the flood's height 10,000 refugees were being fed & sheltered in or near the city. Focus of operations was the San Bernardino Auditorium which served as an improvised shelter...
...have a wide choice of courses to pick from, all dependent on the applicant's age, fitness, depth of purse. If he wants his training for nothing, the Air Corps will take any healthy, well-schooled male between the ages of 20 and 26, feed, clothe, shelter and train him for a year, pay him $75 a month, almost guarantee a defense force or airline flyer's job at the end of the course. Last week two other ways were introduced. Tennessee began sending out application blanks for five State schools, accommodating 500 ground pupils each...
...Manhattan. Jacob Berman, 52, a native of Minsk, Russia, had for three months given shelter, firewood, candles to two tenants in his condemned three-room flat, at rental of 5? per day. When he developed a sore foot and was unable to go out for wood, they refused to pay rent. Final compromise: the tenants agreed to bring their landlord food, firewood, candles in return for free lodging...
Just before the play was to begin, the Sealyham shot after a fat biddy with blood in his eye. The idea spread to the five Scotties, and in a few seconds hens were clucking all about the stage looking for shelter...