Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys the war was proving rather a rag. They carried their gasmasks in biscuit tins which the school had sensibly bought from a bakery for threepence each. The boys were excused from wearing toppers on campus (but not off), because high hats would congest the school air-raid shelter. Each boy could keep one book, also chocolate, in the shelter. But the famed pack of Eton beagles was to be reduced, for economy, from eleven and a half to six and a half couples...
...There is not a public bombproof shelter in London. A minimum of safety is provided by six feet of concrete covered with earth, yet the London public shelters have only about six inches of concrete. They would not protect against five-pound bombs, let alone 500-pounders...
...Paris, the Bibliothèque Nationale (corresponds to the Library of Congress) limited admissions to 100 scholars at a time. Reason: capacity of the Bibliothèque's bombproof shelter...
...alarm which sent the gathered people scurrying to shelter was because of a Royal Air Force reconnaissance flight-no bombs dropped. The speech which had gathered the crowds was the first important official statement since Adolf Hitler's "final peace offer" on Oct. 6. It was made before the Nazi Party Veterans' League in Danzig by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. After recapitulating the diplomatic bickerings over Poland, Herr Ribbentrop boarded a verbal airplane and made a grand tour...
...most of Europe's great art collections have gone into hiding. At the New York and San Francisco Fairs, however, many a masterpiece from Europe has safely stayed on display. With both fairs about to close, these foreign art exhibits last week had to seek other shelter...