Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many historic events have centered around this site," the marker will note. "The settlement of Dallas began in 1841 when John Neely Bryan's log cabin was built near by. The first legislature of the new state of Texas created Dallas County in 1846 with Dallas as the 'Seat of Justice.' In 1855 a toll bridge crossed the channel of the Trinity River at the west end of this plaza. Years later the river channel was moved one-half mile westward and confined between flood-control levees. Dallas was incorporated as a town...
Wales, an advanced standing junior, majored in Chemistry. He graduated from the Groton School. At Harvard, he worked for PBH, teaching guitar to children in a settlement house...
...Newhouse, the settlement that came at the cost of $4,000,000 will give him a 17-month head start as undisputed owner of his new papers. To Springfield staffers, it now means little, if anything. They are already reconciled to the brash outsider. "We have had a lot of opportunity to talk with employees in other Newhouse operations," says one editor, "and we haven't found anything to get alarmed about...
Moorehead leaves the contemporary reader aghast at the obtuseness of the British, who followed Cook's discovery with the decision to make a penal settlement of New Holland. Reason has its crimes: since the American dumping ground for Puritan and Catholic dissidents had been lost by the Revolution, it was quite sensible in London to decide that the new continent should be used for a gaol. In 1788, the year of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, civilization in the form of white slavery arrived at Cook's Botany Bay. So came about a bush Belsen, with...
...first settlement of Captain Ar thur Phillip-redcoats and canary-yellow clad convicts-nearly starved to death. A relief ship came with food and news of the French Revolution Says Moorehead: "What did they make of the terror? Were the convicts delighted that the underdog was having its day? Did any of them pause to reflect that in France, the most sophisticated country on earth, one could watch the guillotine at work in the public streets with sadistic indifference, while here in New Holland the aborigine, the most primitive of all human beings, burst into tears when he watched...