Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night a priest burst into our camp and told us in perfect French that the Germans were in the neighborhood and we had better get out of town. Naturally our first impulse was to believe him-just out of respect to a man of the cloth-but then we noticed that he disappeared immediately, and we soon realized that he was a fifth-column agent . . . . We have observed that the Nazi fifth column is efficiently organized to an unbelievable extent, with the idea of creating panic among civilians, rousing them to evacuate towns in the area where the Nazis want...
...been living on the earth for 200,000 years. That was just a drop in the bucket. The oldest dinosaur egg, in the University Museum, is about 200,000,000 years old. And even this figure cannot compare with the age of the earth, which is probably in the neighborhood of 2,000,000,000 years...
...signed by neighbors of the selected site, who claimd that the project would decrease their land values. As the student committee for the playground points out, this claim is open to serious question. Conversion of an eyesore and police problem into a valuable social service for the entire residential neighborhood should raise, not lower the value of abutting land. In failing to rise above the doubtful logic of a few property-owners and provide for the pressing need of hundreds of eager boys, the Park Board has blocked a plan full of promise for both Cambridge and Harvard...
...Nazi press yowled triumphantly over this sensational finale to Germany's conquest of Norway. This yowling revealed that the dive-bombing attack, and its stunning "result," were intended for the special benefit of Italy, into whose neighborhood an Allied fleet had moved in admonition against Mussolini's entering Hitler's war. Italy is long on bombing planes, not so long on battleships...
...uneducated, delinquent parents of mixed religion, living in a bad neighborhood, should join the Army or Navy...