Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yellow lights glowed from all four floors of an abandoned cigar factory in Newark, N. J. one night last week. A sickle moon hung in the sky. From the upper windows came susurrous sounds, growing louder and louder, a whisper repeated a hundredfold, until finally the whole neighborhood rang and rang with the cries: "Isn't it wonderful! Peace! Peace! Peace! Ain't it wonderful! OOooh! Peace! Peace...
...Newark this spring John Kochorowsky kept telling his neighbors what a fine garden of onions and kohlrabi he was going to have. But something went wrong. Nothing came up. John Kochorowsky's garden became a great neighborhood joke. Meantime the garden next door flourished beautifully, became as famed for fertility as John Kochorowsky's was for sterility. One day last week John Kochorowsky gazed over the fence brooding long and darkly. Then he went down into his cellar, hanged himself...
...marked backs and broken necks. A count cut their estimate to 153. No one had seen the marauders, but it took no Pinkerton man to deduce their identity. Mongrel German police dogs from nearby farms, running singly or in pairs, had been making sheep and poultry raids in the neighborhood. Reconstructing the scene, Ashgrove employes saw the dogs burrowing under the field's six-foot wire fence, descending on the helpless turkeys, tossing them through windows in frenzied bloodlust. New York law requires each county to indemnify owners of livestock killed by raiding dogs. Day after the slaughter...
Somebody in your neighborhood at home will have told you about the park's bears. There are some 700 black and silver-tipped grizzlies this year, so you are bound to see plenty. The park service runs tourist camps, but you can safely pitch your tent anywhere. (For ferocious bears, go to Katamai National Monument, Alaska, rivaled as a game range only by Belgian Congo's gorilla preserve.) There are more bison (1,000) and elk (10,000) in the park than the mountainous area could support in the winter if hunters did not kill...
...feeling that he was dilettantish in any is not justified by the sober worth of more than a hundred scientific papers he has written. He has been interested in chemistry since he was fourteen. At fifteen, while in the Roxbury School, he was giving shows for the neighborhood boys, billing himself as "Young Edison" and charging admission. He turned water into wine, made smells and explosions, and devoted the proceeds to buying new laboratory equipment. In 1915, after he had graduated from Harvard, a rubber company wanted him to be head of a research laboratory in Ohio. He visited their...