Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prove himself he is now in the neighborhood of Cape Town, Cape Colony, Africa-on a two-year jaunt from Cape Town to Cairo. With him are Professor R. L. Mannen, geologist, of Texas University, and Dr. C. Ernest Cadle, head of the Denver-African Expedition...
...noble lord," sneered the sarcastic Earl, "has condemned the present management of public houses in London on the basis of his penetrating observation. . . . I am not interested in the noble lord's personal perambulations of the metropolis. The noble lord happened to be in a neighborhood of wretched public houses, full of disorderly people. Every man chooses his promenade...
...have not happened to find myself in such a neighborhood recently "At his age the noble lord ought not to borrow from the ebullitions of the younger peers...
...made a personal profit of $1,000 in a complicated floor deal, while acting as a specialist in Manhattan Shirt stock. In 1910, Mr. Stern paid some $75,000 for his Stock Exchange seat. Now, when his seat is sold, he will receive a sum in the neighborhood...
...studying southern stars and nebulae, and with its new modern mounting it will continue on two especially significant problems--first, the survey of the super-system of galaxies known as the spiral or extra-galactic nebulae, and second, the motions of stars, and the stellar structure, in the neighborhood of the sun. For this second problem, Dr. W. J. Luyten, of the Observatory staff, will leave. Cambridge within a month for a year's work with the telescope at Bloemfontein, where he will make plates of the southern sky for comparison with those made more than twenty years ago while...