Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...indebtedness to classical fantasy literature should not overshadow the liberties she takes with the form. Most notably, her wizard world is not at all remote from daily realities. It takes a cyclone to transport Dorothy to Oz. In contrast, Harry can walk a few steps through a London pub near Charing Cross Road and enter Diagon Alley, a wizard shopping bazaar, where he and his classmates meet late each summer to buy school supplies. And getting from there to Hogwarts is a snap; Harry and his friends go to King's Cross Station and board the Hogwarts Express, which departs...
...already built McArthur Hall, a large brick building looking onto the Charles toward Cambridge, to house students in the Business School's executive education program. Construction has begun on the new student center, which will house dining and social facilities and perhaps a post office, a game room, a pub, student club offices, University Health Services, a Coop and an auditorium...
...avoided, that being near family is what's important for the elderly when they live alone in a distant city. But I still wonder whether my dad's move wasn't the worst thing I could have done to him. I ripped him away from his foundations: from the pub he went to three times a week, the bus route he knew even blind, the house he could navigate in the dark, the newspaper that chronicled men he knew in the Jaycees, the people he had built houses and warehouses...
...pub (Britain), hotel (Australia), boozer (Britain, Australia, New Zealand...
John Harvard's Brewhouse earned a very different accolade, as its large selection of eight beers brewed on the premises won it the title of best brew pub...