Word: streets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closest girl's school is New Jersey College for Women, 14 miles away in New Brunswick. Since this institution is across the street from Rutgers, a condition is created analogous to a Tufts man trying to horn in on Radcliffe...
Munroe-Langstroth Contractors of North Attleboro started to dig into the Charles last Wednesday on a one-year, $732,000 contract with the Metropolitan District Commission. The whole project, including the access roads on both sides of the river and an extension of Mem Drive to Arsenal Street, Watertown, will cost another...
Quiet since 1948, 'the Parker House is busy again. Banquets and teas and youth rallies fill the ballrooms, red-faced men in chalk stripe suits, with homburgs and cigars fill the lobby, smoke fills a dozen rooms from the eighth floor up. Across the street, a sound truck blaring MacNamara's Band disturbs the Puritan graves in the Old Granary Burying Ground. The vacant sides of buildings are plastered with candidates faces, and every gutter has a collection of campaign propaganda. It's election time in Boston, again...
...other serious contender for the mayor's office is Governor's Councilor Patrick J. (Sonny) McDonough. With a history of ward leadership and prominence in the State Democratic party, McDonough conducts a vigorous, personal campaign, often spending whole days shaking hands with everyone he meets on the street; his goal is 85,000 handshakes before election day. Behind him, McDonough has a large block of South Boston votes plus the backing of a number of CIO unions. Though he would like to match the vote that Hynes hopes for, McDonough's unfamiliarity with the voters in large areas...
...that remains to be completed," Davis added, "are the Quincy Square rotary, a raised triangle at the head of Dunster Street, and a traffic island north of the main subway entrance...