Word: piers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pressed against the breast-high wooden barrier, a bearded elder stared at a faded photo, glanced up, stared again, then strained his eyes searchingly across the New York pier (see cut). Everyone in the crowd behind him was searching too. A pair of hands reached up out of the throng, jiggling a rudely crayoned sign: "Yaget-Welcome...
...living somewhere in New York. The soldier wrote to his sister in Pennsylvania, the sister wrote to Travelers' Aid in New York. Travelers' Aid looked up every Grossman in the New York phone book. When Bluma stepped off the boat, Max and Jenne Grossman were on the pier...
...India's Back. They left it to the British Raj to build a "sturdy central pier" (as the London Times called the May 16 White Paper) "requiring only a comparatively short span from either side" to bridge the gulf between Moslem and Hindu. Pakistan was rejected. Instead, the plan set up a union of all India with a central government to control defense, foreign affairs and communications; it could raise revenues for those functions. To please the Moslems the White Paper offered the possibility of strong regional governments which could plan their own economic and social development. Two would...
...lovely day to look at the view. The bright sun poured down on San Francisco's blue bay and on the island of Alcatraz set in the middle of it, like a rough, unpolished stone. Private Jacob Weber set up a telescope on the Aquatic Park pier and let sightseers peer through...
...Boston, the Massachusetts state board of censors met Will Shakespeare at the pier. They hacked such words as b-wdyh~s-and wh-r-from the cinema version of his Henry V, missed some saltier though subtler sallies. But the cuts were only for Sundays and children's matinees. Week nights, Bostonians could hear the worst...