Word: filles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Except for a few wealthy citizens who dig private wells in their back gardens, New Yorkers get most of their water from a haphazard network of more than 100 public pumps. In addition, bands of "tea-water men" fill up their carts at springs near Fresh Water Pond, north of the city, and then sell the water in the streets for 3 pence a hogshead. But New York pump water is brackish, so much so that horses of out-of-town strangers refuse to drink...
...chance, Paine (as he began to respell himself) encountered Robert Aitken, a printer then trying to start a magazine for genteel readers. Paine found it easy to fill the magazine with elevated essays on such topics as science, dueling and marriage. His patriotic poem on the death of General James Wolfe at Quebec helped build circulation to a record-breaking 1,500. As the god Mercury describes the scene...
...Lincoln end of the Mall, past and present come alive in the American folk-life festival, a recent tradition expanded this year to run throughou-the summer. More than 5,000 musicians and craftsmen from all parts of the nation and 36 other countries will fill the place with the music, dance, food and arts that enrich the American mosaic. Directly across the reflecting pool (watch out for canoe races) is another new feature: the sprawling Constitution Gardens−a graceful lake, paths and more than 2,600 trees−replacing the ugly "temporary" buildings that have blighted Constitution Avenue...
Despite recent publicity in Publishers' Weekly the course remains somewhat of a secret. Still there were 480 applicants to fill only 80 spots this year...
What that means is that you have plenty of money and, barring pre-med doldrums, a lot of time to fill spending it. In short, you really couldn't have come to a better place. Gone is the Cambridge and the Harvard Square of the '50s and the first half of the '60s: Ye Olde College Shoppes with owners who knew the boys' names like an Eliot House Master, Harvard pennants on the wall, and fine wood interiors. Gone, too, are the head shops, clothes stores and coffeehouses of the late '60s and early '70s, and with them the hippie...