Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a young English novel today is obsessed with the fear of war, Fascism, Communism, Democracy's collapse, neurosis. Allegorical figures of Fascism, Communism, Democracy wrestle semi-essay-istically, through Wellsian plots, with a hero nebulous enough to squeeze at last into some sort of mystical bomb shelter. Such novels seem curiously at odds with the authors' vigorous personal activities-mountain climbing, travel, hiking, sports...
...best of the Federal Writers' Project's books, The Oregon Trail describes the highway as it is now (near the crest of the Sherman Range, Wyo., 8,835 ft. up, it warns: "Blizzards frequent in this vicinity, October to April; usually come very suddenly; seek shelter at once."). Its best accomplishment is its picture of the Oregon Trail's magnificent past-a picture communicated by rare photographs of wagon trains, railway construction camps, settlers' cabins, scalped hunters (see cut), as well as by new accounts of the pioneers who moved like a tidal wave across...
Meanwhile the Vatican, already equipped with gas masks, selected a shelter in which the Pope of Peace will take refuge in case of air raids: a low, round, 15th-Century tower with walls 15 feet thick at the bottom, lined with steel...
Across the street in a filling station, Otis Gillette, the proprietor, loaded his rifle and thrust it into the hands of Tipton Cox, 17, a high-school boy who had scuttled in for shelter. Cox, like all the boys in town, knew and admired Earl. Unlike Earl he had never shot a big rifle, but he lay on the floor, took aim. As Durand spied him and raised a smoking rifle, Cox fired. Earl Durand crumpled with a grunt, hit in the chest. He crawled back into the bank, put his revolver to his own temple, pulled the trigger. Bank...
...Intercollegiate Committee to Aid Student Refugees, an undergraduate group, reports that scholarships, living expenses already are offered on nearly twoscore campuses. At Harvard, for example, the university provided 20 $500 scholarships for refugees; students and faculty raised $11,000 for food and shelter...