Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because of the peculiar physical properties of he latex rubber, the cured balloon can be expanded with a very slight pressure to at least 16 ft. in diameter before it bursts. In the expanded balloon the latex rubber is stretched so that its thickness is in the neighborhood of .00006 in. It is their ability to expand to such great size that makes these balloons so well-adapted to stratospheric work...
...waited for the money, Moyers held Woodruff, his secretary and an office visitor at bay. When Banker Glenn arrived, Moyers pocketed the money. Banker Glenn was then forced to accompany Moyers to the street where he disappeared into a crowd of some 20,000 that had gathered in the neighborhood to watch a fire. Banker Glenn rushed back into the office and G-Man Conroy was put on the case...
...foot long-for classroom dissection-come from Michigan, huge bullfrogs from Louisiana. France ships bushels of its edible snails, which are bigger than U. S. snails and therefore better for anatomical instruction. Rattlesnakes from Texas sometimes arrive alive, are slain on the premises. Cats are bought in the neighborhood, drowned and embalmed, but Ward's does not advertise for cats lest owners of lost pets take umbrage. Few years ago when the Rochester zoo elephant died, Ward's bought the carcass, macerated and stripped off the flesh, sold the skeleton piecemeal. .The best human skeletons now come from...
...Boston and Cambridge there are some 25 settlement houses doing work among the poor. Each house has between 1000 and 3000 members. The settlement house is a neighborhood club for the entire family, and conducts activities for all ages...
...professional advertising artist. The idea for the composition came to him while watching his own son reading at home. Artist Ward painted the background of reverie on a sheet of kitchen oilcloth and then, with no false ideas of his own son's looks, scoured the neighborhood for a handsome model. The curly-headed subject was inveigled away from a sand-lot baseball game. The pic ture was snapped with the aid of two photoflood bulbs and Artist Ward's favor ite camera, a primitive battered box known as a "Monitor," introduced by Rochester Optical...