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Word: streets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With practice beginning today in the Indoor Athletic Building, both the Freshman and the Varsity tennis squads are now preparing for this spring's season. A meeting was held yesterday in the Linden Street squash courts for all Yardling and Varsity team and managerial candidates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Start Practice | 3/16/1939 | See Source »

...Boston, a housewife telephoned police to request that her street be closed to traffic for three hours. Reason: she was baking a surprise cake for her husband, feared that passing cars might cause it to fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...cannot indict a whole people, but unless you do you cannot start a war against them. For the common people on both sides in the World War, that lesson seemed bitterly evident for all time. Today it is apparently being forgotten all over again. Few men-in-the-street nowadays make much distinction between Hitler and the German people. For the majority, all Germans are 100% Nazi goosesteppers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murmurous Germany | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...Herr Abraham Lincoln: 'You can fool all the people some of the time,' " etc. Later that day Otto smashed the teeth of another Hitler Youth he caught baiting an old Jewish woman, got a warm handshake from the Nazi cop who rushed him to a quiet side street, told him to scram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murmurous Germany | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...110th Street, Manhattan's sveltly starched Fifth Avenue passes the extreme northeast tip of Central Park, plunges into a new world-the teeming, Spanish-speaking slums, or barrio, of Lower Harlem. Mainly inhabited by Puerto Ricans, with a peppering of Cubans, Spaniards, Filipinos, Mexicans, it is one of the poorest, noisiest, brightest, muskiest, most musical and least written-about foreign quarters in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peons' Purgatory | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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