Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first 25 jobless miners' families moved to Reedsville from their hovels in nearby mining settlements. To provide quick shelter, quick work for unskilled hands, Washington authorities ordered 50 ready-cut, four-room houses at a reported price of $48,000. The first families were to move in by Thanksgiving. Meantime they were lodged around the neighborhood...
...Originators of the League of Nations.''* A raring pusher into pastures new, however, is his spinster sister, 70-year-old Annie J. Dickinson. Last week she again was on the rampage, this time to supply Yugoslavia with many a W. S. (Wanderer's Shelter), each boasting...
Concerning School faculties, Dr. Drury maintained that "The public school teacher values the freedom of the system, his contact with his students' daily life, and its democracy while the private school master values for freedom of method, development of deep personal intimacy, and a sense of shelter," in the mind of the Rector...
...visitor on earth, would be off to some other place on the first day of autumn. More, he was fleeing from a woman of his own kind, because she had tried to persuade him to embrace mortality. Meanwhile Margaret, the other immortal visitant, having lost her mate, took shelter with a college boy who had given her a lift on the road, and let him become her lover for a few days. When she began to worry about the shortening time she escaped, took up the search for John again. She found him, and the jailer's daughter...
...outbreak of the War. As an officer of Turkish artillery, he expected to be called up, was prepared to go. But significant incidents and rumors soon showed him how the wind was blowing. While he was waiting for the storm he racked his brain to find a possible shelter. On Musa Dagh, seagirt mountain overlooking the village, he found it. When the expected order came for all Armenians to evacuate the valley, Bagradian had made his plans. Night before the Turks came to clear them out, 5,000 Armenian villagers moved up to the heights of Musa Dagh. They expected...