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Both Eisenhower and Stevenson will ride through the city in motor caravans. The Republican candidate will address his supporters on the Boston Common before starting through the Hub and into Cambridge. Stevenson is scheduled to arrive Saturday, October 25, but his headquarters has no release at the present time on where he will speak...
Lexington is the hub from which a series of "pikes" fan out to the horse farms...
Ever since colonial days, when the "common" was the hub of most New England villages, parks have played an important part in U.S. urban life. Fifty years ago (and even today in many localities), the traditional city park consisted of a generous area of well-kept green grass, sprinkled with shade trees and sometimes with flowers, gravel walks for strollers, hard benches for sitters, usually an iron or stone fountain, and often a wooden bandstand. Now the trend is toward parks which are useful as well as ornamental...
...ropes of a minor recession and picking up momentum for the boom of the '20s. The news that reached the public was often frivolous, frequently reflecting the optimism of the day, only occasionally weighted with vague foreboding of more troubled days to come. Every village was its own hub of the universe, and Washington had a quality of dreamworld remoteness...
Euclides was knocked to the ground. His laço- snapped off. With 3½ metres of laço- wound around his propeller hub, the startled pilot headed for home. Though the wooden prop was cracked, he made it safely. The flying club grounded him; the girl threw him over. And Euclides, the only cowboy ever to lasso an airplane, was once again the lion of the dark-eyed ladies of Rio Grande...