Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...homes. Others have taken charge of Home Libraries for the Children's Aid Society,- small libraries placed in the homes of poor families, some boy or girl in the family acting as librarian, and the membership of a library including half a score of children from a single neighborhood who meet with their visitor once a week to exchange and talk about the books, read, sing, play games, save their pennies, etc. Another young man has visited a bed-ridden child who had been discharged from the hospital, but whose case the hospital doctors wished to follow through a volunteer...
Until recently he was employed as clerk in a law office at 140 Nassau street, but went to another firm in the neighborhood of Wall street...
...American players that have accepted the invitations of the Neighborhood Club are Hobart, Hovey, Larned and Chace. Wrenn has declined, owing to his interest in baseball...
...champion of England, and Mr. Mahoney, his partner in doubles, have accepted the invitation of the Neighborhood Club of West Newton, and will arrive the week previous to the Neighborhood tennis tournament, fixed for June 24. They will be the guests of the club during their stay, and will return the week following the tournament, not appearing at any other event...
There are about eight different kinds of tortoises native to New England, and besides these several species are sometimes brought from the south by the gulf stream. These attain the length of eight feet, and weigh 1000 pounds. The snapping turtle is well known in this neighborhood where they are quite common. Except when foraging for food, they remain under water, only coming to the surface about once in an hour to breathe. They are very persistent in attacking their prey, and when they have seized a fish, they will often allow themselves to be carried about for hours. They...