Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus the great Negro fighter Henry Armstrong saluted the ability of Keith Nuttall, a boxer of Brigham City, Utah, who is just 13 years old. Last week, as usual, blond, handsomely babyfaced, mild-mannered young Keith was appearing in exhibition bouts in his home neighborhood. He was fast, brilliant in his footwork, a cunning boxer, and punched so hard that he had to have his hands taped. He has been fighting for two years now-two or three bouts nearly every week...
Ernest Taylor ("Ernie") Pyle, famed war correspondent now in Italy, gave careful directions of how to act Ernie Pyle in the cinema's forthcoming version of his book Here Is Your War: "[The actor] must weigh in the neighborhood of 112 pounds and look anemic. He must not be glamorized nor have any love interest in the picture. He must write on a typewriter and absolutely never be shown with a pencil or notebook...
...rationing and heedlessness of high prices have cut down the sales by chains and supermarkets, and have boosted the neighborhood grocer's business. Dollar sales of grocery chains declined 16% during 1943 ; independents showed a 20% gain...
...Museum of Modern Art of New York has sent a "Look at Your Neighborhood" exhibit to the Harvard School of Design. A collection of suggestions for post-war neighborhood improvements, it will be open to the public in Robinson Hall at the School of Design daily and Sundays during the rest of this month...
There is a good reason for this state of affairs. Trinity House has the facilities to provide for the children, of the neighborhood. Before the war it provided for them quite well. Since the war many of its leaders have joined the armed services and the people left behind are either not strong enough to command respect in the eyes of their young charges or too busy doing war work to have time. The street provides more excitement, more thrills. The House must go afield for its leadership...