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Nissen hut

A Nissen hut is a prefabricated steel structure, made from a half-cylindrical skin of corrugated steel. Originally designed during World War I by engineer and inventor Major Peter Norman Nissen, it was used extensively during World War II.

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After another few minutes, he put his hat back on, tipped it to Hipple, and left the Nissen hut.

After another few minutes, he put his hat back on, tipped it to Hippie, and left the Nissen hut.

Swearing in English and Yiddish, he dashed for the trench right outside the Nissen hut and jumped down into it.

They came in the night sometime, and in the morning they were bedded down in a Nissen hut, a hard and ragged crew.

Along with the rest of the aircrew, he got out of the Lanc in a hurry and sprinted across the tarmac--now blacked out again--for the Nissen hut whose corrugated metal walls were surrounded by sandbags to protect against blast.

The glare of the bare bulbs strung from the Nissen hut's ceiling smote Bagnall's dark-accustomed eyes like a photographer's flash.

He should just drive him out to the motorway, he decided, and dump him on the hard shoulder -but he didn't know how much he remembered of the night in the Nissen hut, who he could finger.

He rode over to the nearest Nissen hut, got off his bicycle, pushed down the kickstand, and went into the hut.

I know where it is right at the back of the grounds, a little army Nissen hut they've erected.

It had been fully dark for two hours by the time Moses reached th camp in the gorge below the Sundi Caves and parked the Buick behind the Nissen hut that was the expedition's office and laboratory, and he went up the path to Tara Courtney's tent, stepping softly sc as not alarm her.