During the Depression, penniless in New York with four mouths to feed, he walked fifty blocks rather than spend a nickel on the subway, hoping a friend would give him a quarter for vegetables, and though hungry he could not take even a piece of lettuce from an open vegetable tray.
Date (happened)
between 1929 and 1939
unresolved
between 1929 and 1939
stated · preferred
before 1963
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [529660] belong to telling lecture nids [1085]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1963 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1963 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 1 March 1963
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1963 to before 1963-03-01.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1085 (certain delivery 1963-03-01); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1963`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1963-03-01 on nid 1085 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
between 1929 and 1939
estimated · possible
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 003)
Reasoning
Restatement of the penniless-and-would-not-steal experience (passage 529660), which the chronology places 1929..1939 in New York (event 15217).
before 1968
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [537216] belong to telling lecture nids [1327]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1968 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1968 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 9 February 1968
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1968 to before 1968-02-09.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1327 (certain delivery 1968-02-09); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1968`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1968-02-09 on nid 1327 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
between 1929 and 1939
estimated · probable
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 018)
Reasoning
Walking fifty blocks for a dime for soup beans and going without rather than taking is a New York scene; the chronology's 15217 (penniless Neville refuses to steal food during the Depression, 1929-1939, New York City) is the same story.
Sources
Source
- The Pure in Heart ¶17 (I would walk from my little place in the village in the hope of finding a friend, fifty blocks away—I couldn’t ride the subway; that was a nickel. In the hope I could find some friend who would give me—I couldn’t borrow it with collateral—in the hope tha…)
- The Pure in Heart ¶24 (But when there are others that you love and they depend upon you to find that quarter and you won’t steal it, and so you come back without the quarter.)
- God's Creative Power ¶26 (I have walked fifty blocks to find a friend who had a dime to buy some soup beans. When he could not be found I would return and perhaps the next day earn a quarter to buy the beans, but it never occurred to me that because others had food and I didn’t t…)