Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every Tuesday four or five volunteers, with a receptionist in tow, set up shop in the clinic's four room suite in Dorchester House, and from 4 to 9 o'clock they check up on the health problems of 20 or so children from the Dorchester neighborhood...
Infrequent emergency situations also trouble the medical students. One child entered the clinic one day with a rusty nall in his foot. Though anti-tetanus serum was necessary, the students are not permitted by law to administer it. Thus the problem of getting in touch with busy neighborhood doctors, or of supplying funds for hospital transportation arose. Though this problem was solved, it is the kind of perplexing situation that confronts the "medics" occasionally, Cobb said...
Wary of the strikers at first, the soldiers soon rubbed sore shoulders with them in neighborhood pubs. Bert's Bar, a dingy shack in Smithfield market, set the tone with an inviting sign: "Bert's Buns Are Better than NAAFI."* Inside soldiers and strikers struck up friendships over mugs of tea and ale. The attitude: "We don't bear the boys any grudge; they can't help but do what they're told." At Smithfield's nearby mahogany-and-gilt pub, "The Hope," soldiers and strikers sipped beer together. Said a happy Guardsman...
Fifty-one-year-old Leo Corrigan wedged into Dallas' real-estate market 30 years ago as a want-ad salesman. His first venture was a neighborhood drugstore, built for $10,000 out of savings. It was also one of the few buildings he ever purchased outright. Corrigan's operating motto is: pay as little down as possible, let the .rent do the rest. Also: always build your apartments around a shopping center. As one project began to pay off, he would take out a mortgage to start another...
...Speech, Eye for Plot. Alice Adams was a Midwest neighborhood story. It presented a girl in a town like Indianapolis, a daydreaming flirt, in a struggle with family failure, local snobbery and a doomed love affair. Nothing more; but anyone could see that it was "well written," meaning that the writer had a pleased ear for U.S. speech; an effortless way of evoking familiar things "[the milkman's horse] casually shifted weight with a clink of steel shoes on the worn brick pavement of the street, and then heartily shook himself in his harness, perhaps to dislodge...