Word: metropolises
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The world's first reaction to Barcelona's fall was perplexity. Why did a city of 2,000,000 people, the reddest town on earth outside Russia, surrender to the Fascists as soon as they reached the suburbs? The explanation was that a metropolis divided against itself-and...
The loss of no other city or area could be as ruinous to the Spanish Republic's fate as Barcelona's. Spain's most important seaport, its industrial mainspring, its metropolis, Barcelona in Rebel hands would probably lead directly to the conquest of the rest of Loyalist...
It could not be learned how Myerson reached the Mormon metropolis, or what his motives were in going there. He was believed to have with him about $100 when he left Harvard a week ago yesterday. A United Press dispatch states that Mrs. Myerson believes he communicated with his father...
The dank, smelly meadows of Linden, N.J. are pimpled with an enormous collection of oil tanks-30 belonging to Sinclair, 175 to Cities Service, 800 to Standard Oil of New Jersey-huddled closely around one of the largest U.S. refineries (Standard's). One day last week a Cities Service...
The city, said he, is an organism, evolves like other living things. It begins as a village, roughly square in shape, then, constantly reaching out and expanding like an amoeba, it grows into an irregularly rectangular town, develops into a triangular metropolis, finally shoots out long tentacles or arms (the...