Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the students in Geology are geologists. The rest are a lumpy conglomerate of outdoorsmen, homeless physicists, Texans, and mountain-climbers...
Sake Merchant Tomioka returned from fire fighting to find his own house burned down, his eight children homeless. Next day he started work on a new house. "By nightfall we'll have it up," he said. "I have no money left, but we can get supplies on credit and by tonight I'll be filling orders again for the inns...
...Wandering Homeless. The new bill, similar to one adopted by the House last year, would extend the D.P. program until mid-1951. It would admit 359,000 (instead of 320.000 in McCarran's bill) of the world's homeless. It made eligible 5,000 Italians dislodged from the Trieste area taken over by Yugoslavia, 18,000 members of General Anders' Polish army now in Britain, 10,000 Greeks made homeless by civil war, and some 4,000 White Russians who fled from Communist-held Shanghai to the Philippines. Provision was made to admit 54,744 Germans expelled...
...Compassion. One day in 1899, with three or four followers and the equivalent of 50? in her purse, she came to the capital city of Wellington. There she rented a house on credit, begging packing cases for furniture, and opened her doors to the city's orphans, homeless, aged and ill. Anyone who was hungry could come for a meal, which was passed through a sliding panel in the wall so the recipient's face need not be seen...