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...Edward Bak, a retailer, bought a rundown building at 1719 West Division Street, Chicago, and thoroughly renovated it as a new location for his hardware store. Meanwhile, officials of the city's buildings department sent Bak a letter, which he never got demanding that he make repairs. A process server could not find Bak to notify him of a court hearing for a demolition order because the summons was misaddressed to "Edward Bah" at 1711 West Division. Eventually, inspectors found Bak's building and mailed him a letter saying that it was in good shape, but by the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: America the Inefficient | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...flesh bubbled from bone, a city disappeared in a flash. Yet the damage report was not complete, as Yale Research Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton shows in this compassionate and important study of the malaise that still pollutes the spirits of many survivors. They are known as hibakusha (pronounced hi-bak-sha), which literally means "explosion-affected persons." To the Japanese the word incorporates the chill of such terms as zombie and leper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Psychological Ground Zero | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

Whan that Somer with his fon hadde gone The CLERKES hadde al bak to scole yronne, And filled ech rome with swich a swete soun To mak the halles with ladies lough resounen. And oft twas seyde by them as hadde an ye That they wewr al engaged in villainye...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cantabridgian Tayles | 10/12/1963 | See Source »

...weight star Croasdale won the Shot put rather easily with a toss of 49 ft. 11 in. and the Crimson's other weight prodigy, John Bakkensen, won the discuss at 166 ft. 8 in. Loren Clayman grabbed second place in the discuss to complete the 22-point weight total. Bak- kensen's winning threw was only slightly more than three feet short of the University records he set Friday at the Penn Relays...

Author: By John D. Gerhart, | Title: Crimson Trackmen Beat Crusaders by 27 Points; Hatch, Weightmen Star | 5/1/1963 | See Source »

...Zere hass been a mistake. I must haff mine book bak back...

Author: By H. Lewiss, | Title: Biff Bundie, University Cop, in 'The Circle of Seven' | 5/1/1962 | See Source »

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