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...freezing in the 40°-below weather, the two nurses examined 52 patients a day. For ten days, broth or hot brandy and sugar was the only nourishment many of the Indians got. Later, more drugs were dropped by an R.C.A.F. plane and food was hauled in. In the windowless, filthy hovels, modern nursing techniques were impossible. Said Nurse Bond: "It was not the easiest thing to look professional in Arctic regalia, crawling into a tepee on hands & knees and having to squat on the saliva-spattered ground while the smoke from the bonfire blinded one. Our favorite expression soon...
...until they got land, the peasants would be skeptical. Said Maria Rosa Giuliano, who lives in a windowless cavern with her nine children: "We will believe in the good things De Gasperi says when we see them. We liked him-the poor, thin man. But we have been disappointed too often...
...windowless teachers' room of the Nadke High School (during the war the headquarters of the U.S. 96th Division), old, bushy-haired Principal Matsugoro Shimabukuro sighed: "The students here are too puzzled to have any fixed hopes. Why bother to graduate from high school if the only job you can get is working on a labor gang for the American Air Force...
...Deposit Library, a square windowless structure behind the soccer field, was constructed just before the war. It was largely the brainchild of Keyes D. Metcalf, University librarian, who brought the important libraries of the Boston area into the plan and got Harvard to put up $250,000 for the construction of the building...
...societies do. If the questioner persists,* members of such societies as Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key and Berzelius are expected to leave the room. Such behavior has sometimes led irreverent outsiders to suspect that the societies do nothing at all, except make mysteries of themselves, behind the bronze doors and windowless walls of their New Haven "tombs." But it has never prevented Yale juniors from hoping that they too will feel a hand fall on their shoulders at the traditional tap day each spring. To be one of the 15 men elected each year to each of Yale...