Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Massachusetts' "Pioneer Valley." This region offers, besides the interest of a young and developing field, a nearby location by train or car, an agreeable surprise to those who found Pinkham Notch a far cry. It is possible to go for a day or stay over in one of the neighborhood's many inns or hotels. The season has been in full swing since a nine inch snowfall November...
Betty, almost 15, lives in a fashionable neighborhood, wears flashy clothes, is plain-looking, has an I. Q. of 129 (very bright). She does well in English, likes to write poetry; but in other studies, especially Latin, her work is indifferent. She has few dates, is self-conscious with boys, sometimes dreams that she is herself a boy. Chief cause of her unhappiness: a domineering mother. Her mother clearly shows preference for Betty's older brother, who was good at Latin. Betty believes all her troubles will end when she has a disfiguring mole removed from her left cheek...
...liquefy. The standard method involves liquid hydrogen, which is unstable and highly explosive. Kapitza's method not only did away with liquid hydrogen, but. cut the cost of making a quart from $50 to $5, the time from 24 hours to two hours or less. In the neighborhood of absolute zero, ordinary lubricants freeze hard as iron and Kapitza's problem was to find a lubricant for his compressor. He solved the problem by allowing a little helium vapor to squeeze through the piston clearance, so that the helium itself did the lubricating...
Clients never saw the back room where he slept, never heard him speak of his family, knew of no confidants. In a neighborhood where world politics is the breath of life, he said nothing of politics; in a period when Russians were Bolsheviks, Whites, or something in between, Alexander Alexandroff listened to arguments, rolling innumerable cigarets, said nothing. Wearing the same clothes until they wore out, he imperceptibly became Uncle Alex, the most familiar figure of the neighborhood-a portly man now, kindly but frugal, helpful, but insisting on being paid for it, his brown hair reduced to a faint...
...good neighborhood for him. On East 4th Street, near the river, he was on the coast where the tides of Manhattan's racial mixtures endlessly swirl and boil. Around him were Italians, Poles, Russians, Rumanians, Germans, living in an area of employment agencies, meat markets, secondhand clothing and furniture stores. Around him too were hordes of immigrants who knew no English. Alexander Alexandroff spoke English. French, German, Polish. Italian. Hebrew, Russian, and understood several other languages besides. Soon his neighbors began to use his office as a place to receive mail. Soon they began to rely...