Word: near
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boxley, a 19-year-old Negro, was working last week in a field near the home of Justice-of-the-Peace John James of Alamo, Tenn. Mrs. James was attacked, choked, left unconscious in her yard. She revived for a moment and gasped...
...jury found Merton Hankins not guilty of assault, evidently because his reputation as a larkster was well established. Two years ago, when the Flatbrook Valley Club refused to let him fish in its privately stocked trout pools, near Newton, N. J., Jokester Hankins opened the dam, let out the water, killed most of the fish. For that he was fined...
...special park near the Ocean House has been engaged for the annual base-ball game, and those who wish to play golf will have the privilege of the North Shore Golf and Country Club at Salem. Dinner will be served at the New Ocean House at 7 o'clock...
...France. Lank shadows and stocky, the fluttering shadows of dresses, the ridiculous elongated shadows of trousered legs, darted and danced last week all over the reddish scoria of the Roland Garros Stadium courts near Paris. The shadow-casters were most of the ablest tennis amateurs in the world. The French championships in which they were engaged were the first big international matches of the season. Present to display their 1929 form were...
Gratification came last week to Professor P. I. Preobrajenski, famed Russian geologist. For last week near Perm in the Ural Mountains (the mountain chain which divides European from Asiatic Russia) Professor Preobrajenski discovered oil. Thereupon the Soviet Supreme Economic Council bestowed upon him a reward (a "gratification") of 10,000 rubles (approximately $5,000). The Professor was "gratified" rather than "paid" because of the prevailing theory that services to the Russian state are recompensed by promotion and power rather than by so capitalistic an invention as capital...