Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this, amount $450,000 came in the, form of notes from Colonel Procter, which were on exhibit in court, and he declared on the stand that the grand total of his contributions was in the neighborhood of $600,000. In spite of this massing of money, the fund was exhausted in May of that year and the campaign "collapsed...
Despite the fact that everyone except the wives and mothers of the men on board the PN9 No. 1?giant plane which vanished a fortnight ago, somewhere in the neighborhood of Hawaii?had come to the conclusion that the airship had sunk to the bottom of the Pacific or been crushed in its waves, rumors persisted that it had been found with all its crew alive. Such a message was picked up by an amateur radio operator...
Soldiers at Aldershot have been laughing at the Communist propaganda and tearing down the radical broadsides posted in the neighborhood...
...French success was less a battle than a maneuver. There are in the neighborhood of 100,000 French troops now in Morocco, of which 20,000 or 25,000 took part in the action. Their overweening numbers made resistance futile. Consequently they had few losses. Two flanking movements starting from opposite ends of a 45-kilometer front induced the Riffians to flee, leaving the Tsoul tribe alone to oppose the French. The Tsouls went over to the Riffs when the French retreated in July. Last week with the situation reversed they "turned faithful" again and came in asking mercy...
...bring back a commercial cargo; the Onondaga, in the Caribbean returning with 1,600,000 ft. of lumber from Seattle whither she took Fords; the East Indian being reconditioned at Chester, Pa; the Henry Ford II and Benson Ford (named after a young son of Edsel) in the neighborhood of the Sao Canal, one carrying Ford products, the other returning with a commercial cargo. All carry the "Bluebird" ensign chose by Mr. Ford himself; cf. Maeterlinck...