Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train could get to the Chicago exposition before its end, she might well blow a salute to an old steam locomotive chuffing around the neighborhood. Old No. 999, the New York Central engine, which put thrills into the melodramas of the 1890's, in 1893 attained a record of 112½ m.p.h. for 1 mi. at Cuttenden, near Buffalo, N. Y.∙ Her engineer on that run, Charlie Hogan of Buffalo, was again at her old throttle last week...
...curly white beard was torn out in great patches, one ear was gone, his head had been bashed many times with the swivel stool. In the ghostly underground quiet, Lee Weinstein was found. He had been shot seven times in the stomach, chest, neck and face. None in the neighborhood had seen the murderer come...
Seventeen years later Principal Miller and Dr. Meyer had Dr. Ruth Eldred Fairbank, Johns Hopkins' psychiatrist, see what had become of Locust Point's morons of 1914. What she found she reported last week in Mental Hygiene. She found most of them still living in the neighborhood. All but two of the girls were married. Only five cases of illegitimacy and five cases of prostitution occurred during the 17 years. Three-fourths of the subnormals are supporting themselves. One became a Pro- hibition agent. One "nitwit," who can write only his name, progressed to an inspector...
Obviously not leading a vigorous intellectual life of their own, the editors spend their time alternately flaying every other group in the University and the neighborhood, and extending a rotarian handshake and clap on the back to anyone with anything to say. They aim not so much to start people thinking, that demands a point of view, and a certain amount of mental activity, but to find people who are thinking, to hang onto the bandwagon if there...
With the President and Congress plumping for inflation (see p. 10), silver prices last week jumped more than 25%. from 28? per oz. to the neighborhood of 36. Practically every inflationary scheme discussed had its silvery promise: to remonetize silver at 16 to 1; to have the U. S. take $100,000,000 worth of silver from any government in payment on War debts; to have the U. S. buy 5,000,000 oz. of silver per month; to have the U. S. buy $250,000,000 worth of silver to remove the world surplus. Three classes of arguments were...