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Word: neighborhood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phillips Brooks House Text Book Loan Library will open this year on Tuesday, September 27, it was announced last night. The Loan Library has at present in the neighborhood of 5,000 text books which it lends to students in the University at the nominal sum of $.25 a book. Upon the return of the book $.15 will be refunded to the borrower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. B. H. Loan Library Opens Tuesday | 9/22/1927 | See Source »

Tenth Avenue. Before the World War broke them up, the Hudson Dusters were a well-knit gang of gunmen and thieves who infested the west front of Manhattan, near Tenth Avenue. Such devilry was constantly sizzling and boiling up here, that the neighborhood became known as "Hell's Kitchen." In this lurid milieu, Playwrights John McGowan and Lloyd Griscom elected to set their play, although, as subsequently developed, they might as logically have fixed upon the Bronx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Aug. 29, 1927 | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...Brunswick, N. J., at petition of residents, De Russey's Lane, famed scene of adultery and double murder in the Halls-Mills case of 1922-27, was renamed Franklin Boulevard. Realty in the neighborhood had boomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 8, 1927 | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...nine granaries have a storage capacity of 17,000,000 bushels and represent 46% of the total grain storage space in the neighborhood of Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Granaries | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...years ago several mile-deep wells were opened near Los Angeles. Last week the General Petroleum Co. completed another in the neighborhood and thereby tapped a new oil level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Oil Production | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

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