Word: cod
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before you do anything rash consider Cape Cod. Like everyone else, I have been explaining my vacation plans for the last two weeks: "I'm going down to the Cape. My parents have a house there." Last spring in reading period everyone was begging me for an invitation but now they just look surprised. I am going to the Cape because that is where I live...
...Cape Cod is synonymous with sun, beach, party, friendly cops and melting creamsicles. There are also crowds. In fact, Cape Cod in the summer is quite similar to Florida during spring break--any number of bars resemble the Eliot House Happy Hour...
...Cape Cod does not go to college in September. It stays right there. Any real Cape Codder will tell you that he prefers the rain and wind of the winter to the sun and clouds of the summer. There is a very good reason. Most of the summer people come to the Cape for the parties or the beaches. But the Cape has great natural beauty which many of them miss. And late in November or early in April the weather is nice, there are no crowds and this natural beauty shines through. I think it is the best time...
...decline in maternal and infant death rates; of bronchial pneumonia; in Cambridge, Mass. In 1921 Dr. Eliot left her private pediatric practice ("I never felt comfortable about asking for my fees") to study rickets, and along with Dr. Edwards Park of Yale discovered the preventive value of sunshine and cod liver oil. In 1947 she became the first woman to be president of the American Public Health Association...
...sidewheeler Peter Stuyvesant, which formed part of Anthony's Pier Four Restaurant, was torn from its concrete pilings and wrecked in Boston Harbor. Outside of Boston, the storm destroyed some of New England's best-known landmarks. Among them was the seaside dwelling in Eastham on Cape Cod that was made famous by Naturalist Henry Beston's 1928 bestseller The Outermost House. The surf in Rockport, Mass., demolished a red fishing shack known as "Motif No. 1," a favorite subject for local artists. In Maine, the losses included three lighthouses and the amusement pier at Old Orchard...