Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first 48 hours of his confinement in the East Cambridge Jail, evidence of Parkhurst's high Washington connections, associations with the social registry of the Eastern seaboard, a divorced Alabama wife, and a narcotics collection, snowballed into an avalanche...
...over disposal of Big Inch and Little Big Inch seemed set tled. And not a day too soon. With the coal strike on (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), hope was strong that the long idle Big and Little Inches might soon be carrying badly needed oil from Texas to the Eastern seaboard...
Though it was high time for frost, temperatures stood at August levels from the Great Lakes to the Eastern seaboard. Manhattan small fry celebrated the hottest Halloween on record (81°) by donning masks-and going naked on the beach (see cut). As the hot spell wore on, thermometers registered highs of 84 in Washington, 82 in Philadelphia, 81 in Boston, 77 in Chicago, 85 in Memphis. Midwestern farmers mopped their foreheads and cursed the humidity which was delaying the corn harvest. Mississippians sighed and put off their hog killing. Thousands of city folk got out their lawn mowers...
Back in the days when citizens of the Eastern seaboard were stocking their atties with sand pails and water buckets, the U. S. Army was determinedly erecting a long, low, narrow group of buildings adjacent to their expanding Fort Devens. This clump was imaginatively tagged "Lovell General Hospital, North"--the "North" to distinguish it conveniently from a neighboring clump, Lovell General Hospital, South." Beyond a fresh coat of paint and a new, if inexplicable, numbering system, the exteriors of the erst-while hospital buildings haven't changed a whit since...
...long visit in 1904, he had been an expatriate for more than a quarter of a century. He had communed with Europe and had brought the art of the novel to a perfection probably unequaled since. The American Scene, his impressions of the U.S. (actually only the eastern seaboard) represents the Master at the height of his cultivation, endlessly receptive, endlessly scrupulous, endlessly amused...