Word: cluster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cluster of gentle and disregardable nuts is the 1941 committee. Chairman Priestley, before the war a writer of folksy reveries like The Good Companions, has turned into a national oracle. No less than 40% of Britain's 14,000,000 radio listeners give him ear when he discusses each Sunday night the problems before the Empire...
Flag Over Dérna. On March 12, 1937, Benito Mussolini paused in his tour of Libya at the port of Derna. Set on the edge of a cluster of green hills, rich in water and soil, this little town had come to be called the Pearl of Cyrenaica. A famous local story which Il Duce asked to hear in full was that of William Eaton and Presley O'Bannon. In 1804 the U. S. was very annoyed with the Barbary pirates, who kept nibbling at U. S. trade in the Mediterranean. William Eaton, a Connecticut schoolteacher, and Presley...
...motorists on U. S. 1, Byberry is just a cluster of red and white colonial-style buildings, not at all bad-looking, in a peaceful rural setting on the outskirts of Philadelphia. Philadelphians know the place better; some of them refer to the State Hospital for mental diseases at Byberry as the "House of Horrors." In the last ten years Philadelphia newspapers have sporadically aired reports of noisome doings in this enormous institution, one of the largest...
Prolonged slump has wrought many changes in Wall Street. Lunch-hour groups of pallid clerks cluster about skyscraper entrances, talk of their latest "Scotch Week" (forced leave) in subdued tones. There are fewer limousines, fewer taxis, there is even plenty of parking space. Inside the skyscrapers, scores of vacant desks are evidence of little business, ironclad leases. Instead of an excited mob in the customers' room, a few clerks doze or play ticktacktoe...
...from the bourgeois hustle and bustle of the Square, set back in a cluster on Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge's own Fifth Avenue, lie three of the most amazing clubs in the world. Their initiation fee, a mere seventy-five to a hundred and ten dollars, is the only concrete barrier to membership. Their quarters are small but comfortable. Their purpose is neither exactly intellectual nor precisely social; it is to sell clothing...