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Word: bensonhurst (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn, where anything can happen, a street cleaner last week graduated magna cum laude from Brooklyn College. After a hard day's work in the gutters of Bensonhurst, bespectacled young Isadore Goldstein, 23, took off his whitewing uniform, put on cap & gown, marched up to Brooklyn College's commencement platform to take a B.A. and a graduate scholarship for proficiency in social science. Next day he went back to his street sweeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Street Cleaner Cum Laude | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

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