Word: metropolises
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The Struggle. More than a million children of every station and every national background are living today in that enormous arena, the metropolis of New York City. The city, which stifles thousands of them in jammed tenements and garbage-littered lots, also attempts, with genuine compassion and real hope, to...
Most of Oregon's Willamette River was shaded to the water's edge by a vast and unbroken Douglas fir forest in 1845, but two optimistic New Englanders who had just decided to found a metropolis on its west bank paid little attention to this awesome sylvan roadblock...
Citation: "Son of the industrial Midwest, who began to practice the gospel of brotherly love in the crowded playgrounds of a vast metropolis, who carried it on to the busy marts of trade and to the worker's bench ... A born leader of men, Martin Durkin understood his fellow...
The Crimson nine moves from the Metropolitan league to the Metropolis today. Fresh from an 8 to 2 victory over M.I.T. here Wednesday, the team meets West Point there this afternoon, and Columbia in New York tomorrow.
Fed up with soaring food prices, shrinking pay and government corruption, the people of São Paulo, Brazil's No. 2 city (pop. 2,500,000), rose in wrath last week and repudiated their political bosses. In a municipal election that was supposed to be a rubber-stamping...