Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farmers' gross income rose to $6,000,000,000 and to $7.300,000.000 in 1934. This year it should be in the neighborhood of $8,000,000,000. So the tractor again comes lumbering over the farm horizon. There are no current figures on the truck and tractor population, but horses have dropped to 16,600,000. Sales of farm implements have risen even more sharply than the rise in farm income. From a 1932 low of some $150,000,000 they have more than doubled, until domestic sales for the present year are estimated...
...into his coupe in front of his house, stepped on the starter. Instantly the machine exploded with a thunderclap went to pieces like a paper bag. Attorney Middleton died almost instantly. Experts estimated that had the other 17 sticks of dynamite under the cars hood gone off, the whole neighborhood might have been wrecked. But not one life was lost in the voting three days later...
...opinion, Roscoe Pound's greatest gift is his "flypaper memory." As a boy in Lincoln, Neb., he disrupted a Sunday-School contest for memorizers of Bible verses by rattling them off by the chapter after one reading. Years later the members of a Neighborhood Club in Belmont, Mass., who met weekly to hear a paper by one of their number, were nonplussed by Member Pound's habit of arising after each paper, no matter what the subject, to give a more authoritative treatment. His particular interests are botany, Freemasonry, military history of the Civil...
...example let us take the case of the radio maestri. When a top-notch orchestra leader is engaged for a series of commercial broadcasts he may receive a salary in the neighborhood of $2,000 per broadcast. The newspaper radio columns and gossip columns immediately exaggerate this and say that he has been signed for $4,000 or $5,000. However, of the actual $2,000 at least $1,000 goes as commissions, and a good part of the residue goes for arrangements and orchestrations. Next, money must be deducted for office expenses, photograph and publicity service, entertaining, electrical transcriptions...
...front of his house, stepped on the starter. Instantly the machine exploded with a thunderclap, went to pieces like a paper bag. Attorney Middleton died almost instantly. Experts estimated that, had the other 17 sticks of dynamite under the car's hood gone off, the whole neighborhood might have been wrecked. But not one life was lost in the voting three days later...