Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Detroit's projected twelve-hour schools for children from three to 16 is a revolutionary move that goes to the roots of that city's big problem-housing. Detroit can't build enough soon enough to shelter labor imported from outside, proposes to draw more of Detroit's present residents-especially women-into factory work. "We found that we could get four times as many women to go into factories by taking care of school-age children as we could by taking care of pre-school chil-dren," said Miss Irene Murphy (sister of Justice Frank...
...these highly-skilled, seemingly out-of-the-world departments war has come with shocking brutality. The librarian has had to answer pleas of a soldier in Florida for information on Egyptian archaeology, the maintenance department has had to pack and supervise the departure of innumerable treasures to their secret shelter for the duration, and teachers have had to stress timely notes in Fine Arts to hold their students' interest. Perhaps even the conspicuous sign. "Students are requested not to use this elevator . . . It is intended only for the use of the Faculty, staff, and guests," may disappear, and undergraduates...
...battle ended in a nightmare of retreat, with U.S. aircraft hacking at the enemy every step of the way back to the questionable shelter of the islands trailing off the east coast of New Guinea. When the Jap finally got there, only he could count his losses accurately. But by conservative U.S. count he had lost 21 ships, sunk or disabled. And he had unquestionably taken a beating-the first serious defeat of his headlong career through the South Pacific...
Signs are being posted in strategic places around the University, directing the way to the nearest shelter, and more complete placards, naming the warden, nearest Red Cross station, and other data, are also being tacked up in the college buildings...
...just what does it mean? Do the carrots refer to Gandhi and his vegetarian habits, or to Cripps himself, as the article would imply? Do the umbrellas symbolize No. 10 Downing Street, to which you imply Cripps may move, or do they stand for the shelter, peace-in-our-time type of government prevalent until...