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Word: sheltering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berliners learned from sleeplessness and air-raid-shelter misery that two can play a cruel game, the world pricked up its ears, wondered: the Nazis can give it; but can they take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Moral Cement | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...Business as usual" last week. The 200 sleek, well-dressed underwriters and their 5,000 employes had moved down 60 feet into a $200,000 steel & Concrete sub-basement under Lloyd's which was used until break of war for storing records. In this huge and bustling shelter a barbershop, quick-lunch counter, tobacco stand and theatre-ticket bureau functioned busily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Blitzbusiness | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Glass-jawed Phil Scott, onetime British heavyweight champion, was discovered deep in London rubble, heading a squad of wardens digging out a bombed air-raid shelter. Puffed Fainting Phil as he leaned for a moment on his shovel: "And I used to think boxing was hard work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 4, 1940 | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...once great Ramsay MacDonald's diligent but dull son Malcolm, now Health Minister, last week reported to the House of Commons the Government's plans. He noted that 489,000 (56%) of London's children had been sent away; that crowding in big shelters, such as the subway stations, was being diminished; bunks were being installed, sanitation improved, inspections made, first aid provided. But his report did not go un-heckled. A Laborite doctor cried: "If he [Health Minister MacDonald] can remain for ten minutes [in a subway shelter] without becoming sick, he can stand more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: We Can Take It | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Among others trying to solve London's dormitory-shelter problem was Admiral Sir Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans. And significant of the increasing seriousness of the morale problem was a visit by King George and Queen Elizabeth last week to some of Sir Edward's choicest bombed areas, new and old. As common sufferers whose home (Buckingham Palace) had received a share of bombs, Their Majesties picked their way through debris, watched wrecking crews work, talked with A. R. P. wardens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: We Can Take It | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

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