Word: uprootedness
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In the annual report of the Harvard Athletic Association, Mr. Bingham emphasized again the need for new hockey rinks. It is unfortunate that, due to the decreased income of the Association this year, permanent improvements have been necessarily curtailed. A hockey rink is among the most important of these. Uprooted...
Stinking heaps of refuse piled up in the streets. Rioters in the suburbs uprooted tracks and dug deep trenches across the roads. For many hours Barcelona was completely out of touch with Madrid. A noisy, long-drawn battle was waged between police and Syndicalists in front of the latter'...
Peach Plan. California peachgrowers, with harvest time not far off, last week were wondering how many of their trees to uproot. For peaches from uprooted trees the canners' pool will pay an extra $2.50 a ton. Object: to reduce California's orchards by 12,000 acres, lessen overproduction...
The houses in these communities were not mere hovels but substantial wooden structures--what we should call today small cottages; they were generally equipped with little pit-like cellars, which some times contained a wooden bench beside a firepace. The dwellings were grouped closely together on top of the hill...
That creative artists and scholars of all kinds may have a year abroad, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (capital fund $4,500,000, established by onetime Colorado Senator and Mining Tycoon Simon Guggenheim and his wife Olga Hirsh Guggenheim in memory of their son who died in 1922), has...