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...grow wild), vegetables and meats. Poultry can forage for itself and there is a plethora of fish and small game. And don't you believe there isn't ample time to garden, hunt and fish! I have myself lived in a house scarcely better-built than the shack pictured in TIME. It was a four-room box, tar-paper-roofed, and you could throw a cat through the cracks in the walls. We whitewashed it, papered it ourselves, and by the time my mother, a very frail woman, had planted simple flowers, the wretched place looked rather charming...
When President Angell went to Yale, the institution was a university largely by courtesy. The Medical School was almost literally a shack. Pathologist Milton Charles ("Nitzy") Winternitz became Dean of the Medical School in 1920. Encouraged by the new President, financed by Rockefeller and University money, he boosted the school in a decade to one of the nation's finest...
...father, a Hungarian who for years conducted a prosperous Manhattan importing & exporting business, Gellert began his social and musical investigations. For long trips he used a ramshackle old Jewett in which he kept a cot. More often he hiked through the backlands, stopping at sundown at some shack where he would ask the Negro owner if he could spend the night. Thus he won the confidence of Negroes, attended their baptisms, weddings, funerals, heard them sing songs they ordinarily would rather the white folk did not hear...
Starting without money in a two-room shack, the government of the new Republic ran deeper & deeper into debt, while the slaveholding South worked for its annexation to the U. S. and the industrial North stood firm against it. Bushels of almost worthless Texas scrip held by Northern speculators had much to do with the change of sentiment which brought the new State into the Union in 1845. Sixteen years later Sam Houston, no longer a hero, lost his Governorship because he opposed Secession. Texas gave its share of men & supplies to the Confederate cause but, though the last battle...
...their carefully packed boxes did not contain several handy necessities. They took no gun, very few matches, no lamps, no camera. They intended to do a lot of reading and contemplating, but found they had little time for such things. Clearing the ground, building their "house" (an open-sided shack), working in their garden, fighting mosquitoes, cockroaches, grasshoppers, ants, marauding wild boars, wild dogs left them few waking moments. ''The chronicle of those [first] weeks reads to me now like another Book of Job. One misery was hardly overcome before another, and a worse, arrived." But gradually, painfully...