Word: brockton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city of Brockton, Massachusetts, is not one of Boston's Blue-Chip suburbs. This is due partly to the fact that Brockton is not a suburb of Boston at all, but partly also to the fact that Brockton is distinctly non-Blue-chip in nature...
...center of town he barely avoided colliding with a gentleman, weaving and listing rather badly to port, who had succeeded in losing dinner and a large portion of lunch over his shirt and sportcoat. A quick glance and regrettably long sniff sufficed to give Vag an impression of Brockton which nothing would ever remove...
...have to refer to fortyish Torch Singer Roberta Sherwood as "middle-aged"? Speaking for myself and all us girls in this interesting age bracket, my spread has not changed status one bit in the last 20 years; furthermore, I am not now and never will be middleaged. CONSTANCE SANDERSON Brockton, Mass...
...Brockton, Mass...
...mother taught her six children at home because time was wasted in school on nonessentials and the pace geared to the slowest. When my father, a lawyer, heard her plan, he said she was liable to be haled into court. Instead, the school department (Brockton, Mass.) sent us desks and chairs. Using her own original system, my mother telescoped six grammar grades into one year of home study. We went to school for the first time in the sixth grade at eight years of age; graduated from high school at fifteen and went to Radcliffe College or the Sorbonne...