Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such was the New Madrid Floodway through a strip of eastern Missouri below Cairo. Another was the Eudora Floodway, in Arkansas and Louisiana, to carry floods from the neighborhood of the mouth of the Arkansas River to the mouth of the Red River. The third was the Atchafalaya Floodway from near the Red River to the Gulf, west of New Orleans, a route only half as long as the main channel of the Mississippi. Instead of being raised three feet like other levees, the "fuse plug" levees at the mouths of these floodways were left at the old level...
...current year as opposed to $900 last year were announced by Walter H. Page '37 last night. 1936-37 Cambridge Red Cross $250 Family Welfare of Cambridge 50 Boy Scouts 100 Y.M.C.A. 50 Salvation Army 150 Avon Home 25 East End Union 25 Margaret Fuller House 25 Cambridge Neighborhood House 25 Boston Emergency Campaign 250 Committee on Friendly Relations Among Foreign Students 50 Total...
...League of Nations. Chilean Delegate Felix Nieto Del Rio put Messrs. Hull & Welles on a spot by declaring the U. S. had "abstained." They got off by insisting the U. S. had "withheld." In any case the U. S. is not having any League of Nations in its Good Neighborhood this week, and Geneva can smoke that...
Captured, placed in a glass jar and named Mickey, the singing mouse became the wonder & delight of school and neighborhood. Even newshawks admitted after an audition that it actually sang. When Assistant Director Robert Bean of the Chicago Zoological Park called, it failed to perform. Nonetheless Director Bean, who had heard of singing mice before, offered $150 for it. Dr. Wilfred H. Osgood, zoology curator of the Field Museum of Natural History, also said he had heard of singing mice, though he had never seen one. Declared University of Chicago's Dr. Maud Slye, famed cancer experimenter: "I have...
...outside the hallowed cloisters of Kirkland House, a garbage truck was loading its inimitable wares and in return, unloading the empty tin cans noisily on the side walk. This din continued for a few months to the misery of all in the neighborhood when one appeared, who, by his bearing, was evidently chief among the garbage coterie. His minions, not noticing him, continued their cacophony until a shout silenced them momentarily...