Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elector-at-large in 1924. Staunch Republican, she was glad to cast her honorary vote for Calvin Coolidge. Last year she was appointed to the Port of New York's survey to devise improvements in customs inspection. To her the State Department turned, last month, in search of shelter for its royal guests from Siam...
Lest you forget I tell the story: March 15, 1919, a country school near Center, N. Dak. was also dismissed early because of a blizzard. Hazel Miner, schoolgirl, started home with her two little brothers, in a buggy. It also was upset. Useless to attempt walking, she prepared shelter under the upset buggy, wrapped the two brothers in the blankets. Finally in the dead of night spread her overcoat and her- self over them. When rescued next afternoon, two healthy little boys were found; over them the sister. They did not know she was frozen. PETER D. HOWARD...
During the next two days the Vagaband will spend but little time in his lofty eyrie, a thing much to his liking, for the ramparts, whereon the wild time grows, offer but little shelter from the fitful blasts and gusty rain squalls. The reason for his lengthy absence from Memorial is to be found in the many good lectures that are to be heard hereabouts in the next forty-eight hours. It may be said in passing that the Vagabond hopes to use the ensuing two weeks to great advantage before the reading period and the dreary vacation force...
When they and the bureau were young, they had scarcely a score of men on the staff. Their research home was a temporary shelter. Now the bureau occupies more than 20 buildings in a wooded, 43-acre Washington suburbs park. Scientists and assistants number more than...
...blazing. By the ship's dancing glare the woman saw those things coming toward her. Some skipped from block to block. Some crawled. Some rolled into the water. Two days later some 60 seamen succeeded in crossing the broken ice, in reaching the radio station's shelter...