Word: milles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mill Valley, Calif...
Pittsburgh in the 20th Century was a noisy, grimy giant sprawled across a coal seam, gobbling up ore from Mesabi and spewing out molten steel. It squatted, black and ugly, on the hills between the Allegheny and the Monongahela, trailing mill towns up & down its river valleys. It dug the coal and fed it into fiery furnaces, and strewed the mountainous offal of its furnaces across its landscape...
Besides permanently locating so many ears near the most vunerable point in the Cambridge traffic system, the students themselves add to police woes. An estimated 10,000 students mill through the Square for daily visits to the Coop and other neighboring institutions in addition to the 70,000 commuters who transfer there from one means of transportation to another...
...walk as much as 20 miles to fill his bag with books to bring back to his pupils. "I went with [them] to cornhuskings, apple-peelings, bean stringings, square dances, and to the belling of the bride when there was a wedding . . . I never missed a party at the mill when they made sorghum molasses ... I went to all the churches ... I went to parties where we played post office and where we danced Skip to my Lou . . . There was somewhere to go every night...
Over 600 graduates of the University and their immediate relatives arrived in California September 9 a century late. It was the 1949 meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs, not gold, and it brought them to San Francisco, not Sutter's Mill...