Word: near
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Waconian. "So you're from Waco, are you?" he drawled. "Yes suh, thass right," agreed the Waconian. "And may I ask, suh. what floor do you live on?" wisecracked the Tulsan. In expiation to outraged Waconians, I concede that Waco is a thriving and beautiful city, probably near the 50,000 mark in population (including Negroes). Although the place is -* with Christians, transcontinental travelers, U. S. Highway 77, Canada to Mexico, need not hesitate to stop overnight, as a very good quality of roasting ear juice, distilled in the lush, dewy blackland river bottoms of Central Texas, is procurable...
Tall and green is the corn grown by the Farmers Hoffman on their Blue Ribbon Farm near Somerville, N. J. Tall and grim are the factories that have grown up there in the last generation, where Johns-Manville Co. makes asbestos products and the factory village of Manville has clustered like industrial fungus...
...Four Soviets and three Mongolian spies were captured and shot near Hailar" according to Chinese despatches...
...Near "Mile 133" on the Algoma Central Canadian Railway, last week, virile Baggageman Robert Burns dealt in pioneer fashion with a she-wolf. Seizing the beast between neck and shoulders he strangled her into a coma, carried her home securely tied with baggage car twine to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario...
...Bread Winner, syndicated comic-strip heroine by Cartoonist Martin Branner, has been on a camping trip. One day, last fortnight, a snake appeared in camp. Her companion yelled: "Don't let that snake get away. One of you pick up a stick or a stone and kill it!" Near the snake was a stick. The last picture showed Winnie waving the snake wildly above her head, the companion screaming: "EEEEEEK! She picked up the SNAKE to hit the STICK with...