Word: belmont
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What was a jury-rigged home for Pop is school to over 100 youngsters under five years who comprise the two sessions of the University nursery at the corner of Kirkland St. and Kirkland Rd. This week Director Miss Winfred Lydon of Belmont marks her first year of operations in the pair of linked quonset huts which from an appropriate "H" under the University aegis...
With a minute and 30 seconds to go, Charlio Weiss booted in a goal to give the Freshman soccer team its second victory of the week yesterday, this time over an undersized but rapid eleven from Belmont High School. Weiss scored the only goal of the game when he tapped in a corner kick from his right halfback...
Blackened chimneys were all that remained of two resort hotels, the Belmont and the Malvern. The summer homes of Author Mary Roberts Rinehart, Conductor Walter Damrosch, the late Henry Morgenthau Sr. and scores of other wealthy people had burned as though they were built of butter pats and bacon rinds. U.S. cancer research had received a terrible blow. The red-brick Jackson Memorial Laboratory, with its irreplaceable records and 90,000 precious mice, which had been carefully inbred for generations to produce various manifestations of cancer, had been destroyed...
Louis Berthelot, aged 56, mayor of Belmont, offered one explanation of the temporary Communist success: "There are 190 registered votes in this commune. Fifty-six of them voted Communist at the last elections. With two or three exceptions, the 56 were all young men and women. Communism in the rural districts is the party of the fainéants (lazy no-goods). Young people here don't want to work any more; they don't want to work from dawn till sunset, as I did, and my father, and my grandfather. They don't want to bend...
...politicians-not even Communists-can get away with this kind of wild double-dealing forever. In Belmont, and in thousands of Belmonts all over France, disillusion has set in. All the grip which La Terre has acquired on the peasants, all the attractiveness of hardbitten, fast-talking Communist farmer Deputies will not prevent the party from losing hundreds of thousands of rural votes at the Oct. 19 elections...