Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While work is going forward as fast as possible on the preparation of signs which will direct the students and staff to places of shelter, a study is in progress to determine the choice of areas to be used as shelter zones. All large buildings on campus have been designated as possible sites for these shelters...
...other activies the H.O.C. has a shelter on Mount Monadnock, near Jaffrey, New Hampshire, the object of several trips through the year. These trips, of course...
Last week, under orders from Ankara, state governors prepared for a rush of refugees. Most of the intended immigrants had been forced to get rid of their land, cattle and shelter; they would die unless allowed to get out. A high-ranking Turk said bitterly: "A few years ago the Erzincan earthquake caused the death of many thousands. It was Kismet and we bowed to it. This today is not Kismet. This is a premeditated disaster sent by the devil in human form...
...when he arrived in the newly built paper town in 1945. Marathon's population was nearly 80% Protestant but no single denomination was large enough to support itself. Anglican Barrow started holding services in the paper mill's cookhouse, in a vacant barn or any other sizable shelter. In two years Barrow and his Protestant congregation had built their own church...
...climbers froze his foot and went back under protest. "By noon," said Viallet later, "we had dug through snow up to our chests across the corridor of avalanches . . . We drank grog. That's very important on the mountain in winter. By 4 o'clock we reached another shelter. There was much wind, very much, and very strong, and it was terribly cold [ - 22° F, according to army meteorologists]. Our shoes were frozen solid...