Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time she is teenage, Sylvia can read the faintest marks and signs of caste as ably as a jungle tracker can read a spoor. But Sylvia, secure in the shelter of her father's wing, enjoys sticking her neck out. It is tedious always to be "Russell's daughter"-to swap sophisticated chaff with Daddy and his "high-color" business friends, to go to the Town Hall with "people of good family, olive-complexioned, with Good Hair." So Sylvia frequents the frame house of her Indian girl friend Naomi, where a gang of fascinating outcasts has created...
...same cause. Only seven overgrown acres of the vast Scottish estate were still available for farming. Income and real-estate taxes would gobble up all but ?420 of the ?2,000 he would collect in rents from the rest of his holdings. With the mansion uninhabitable, the only shelter available to the new baronet and his lady was the heatless, lightless. waterless hunting lodge, and even that had been rented out for weekends. Sir Adrian went back to London and bivouacked in a railway waiting room. His money running out, he got to thinking of the cheap London district...
Lindbergh ordered one member of the party full speed down the mountain for help. As the sun went down, they cut ice blocks to make a rude shelter against the wind in the 11,000-ft.-high snow fields. For ten hours Lindbergh and other members of the party took turns at artificial respiration...
...power and place it so deep under ground that it will survive an atomic-war, and rain-water for domestic and industrial needs; an object of my invention is to supply sufficient electricity for all heating, cooking, lights and power for any individual home, farm, camp, air-raid-shelter, city or state; he object of the said authoritative opinion being the correctness my formula (M.X.L.) for a fissionable power equation. Herman A. Cruse, 342 St. Marks Avenue, Brooklyn...
...take a horse and buggy to get from Cambridge to Boston. Professor George L. Goodale was the director of the Botanical Museum then. He was trying to open the field of economic botany--the area that ties plants in with man's food, clothing, and shelter--and plant physiology. In addition, he was a strong rival of the Zoology Department and most jealous of their exhition of jelly fish and other marine life done in glass...