Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspapers develops, it will open new journalistic problems. It will entirely alter the question of what is the proper size of a newspaper. National dailies should develop with a national circulation. By competition they might drive local newspapers out of business- much as large metropolitan department stores have treated neighborhood stores. On the other hand, aeroplane delivery would greatly alter the question of what news is worth printing. One of the San Francisco newspapers carried to New York bore in its headlines: BANDITS KILL POKER PLAYER; POSSES SCOUR MOUNTAINS FOR WOUNDED MAN; MRS. KERR FINED $10 FOR BATTERY OF WOMAN...
...Neighborhood Playhouse group, similarly quiescent last season, is also expected to open this Autumn...
...length on 1925 A, and with a world of power behind each stroke seemed in a fair way to take the remaining distance by storm. With the right to race Yale at stake, the Sophomores rallied sharply and with half a mile to go raised the count to the neighborhood of 34 and buckled grimly to the task of making up the deficit. And they nearly succeeded in doing it, for the prow of the Senior shell cut the line barely 8 feet in front--a rather tight finish to say the least. Sophomore B came along a quarter length...
Throughout the period of their stay, which will be from June 2 to August 17, the men will work individually or in small groups as part of the staffs of various church neighborhood houses, settlements, Y. M. C. A.'s, and other institutions. The purpose is to give the student first-hand contact under expert direction with actual social conditions, to than he may gain experience in the constructive work of improvement and relief. Another aim will be to train men for executive leadership, regardless of the profession they intend to enter...
...time for both strokes called on their men for a last effort and both shells answered with an identical increase in speed. Thayer, setting the pace for the Unions, now made a final effort to break the dead-lock. The stroke in the graduate shell was already in the neighborhood of 34, but it was raised to 36 and inch by inch the older men drew ahead...