Word: room
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Melissa's 6,000 people, 1,840 are unemployed. The peasants live in filthy hillside hovels, ten and twelve to a room. Between them, 6,000 people hold 7,400 acres of hard, rocky land, which means an average of little more than an acre for each-barely enough to stave off starvation. Some 4,000 acres, including fine, fertile land by the nearby seashore, are owned by Marquis Anselmo Berlingieri, whose family has held them for centuries. Most of Berlingieri's land is uncultivated; he finds it more profitable to graze his sheep...
...customer-protecting ruling followed a Thanksgiving Day bar-room fracas in which a South Boston longshoreman claimed he was beaten over the head with a baseball bat. The longshoreman, Joseph Fratolillo, spent 11 days unconscious in City Hospital with a fractured skull...
During Christmas vacation the Harvard Union and the dining halls of all Houses except Kirkland will be closed, it was learned yesterday. The Kirkland Houses dining room will remain open to all students over the holidays...
Straus 11-32 is cursed, not by a ghost or a biddy, but by a telephone. David G. Black, Raymond S. Ettlinger, Michael J. Balborstam and John B. Stadler, all freshmen occupants of the room, refer to Mr. Bell's invention as "that damn thing...
When the phone was first installed everyone was quite pleased with the professional sounding number, Eliot 4-4600. They agreed it gave an air of distinction to the room. At 8 a.m. on the next morning the phone rang. Someone wanted to order shirts. More callers that day wanted to buy rugs, bath mats, and diamond bracelets...