Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oakmont Country Club, in a suburb of Pittsburgh, 24-year-old Harry Cooper of British birth and Los Angeles residence had been around the links four times last week in a total of 301 strokes, causing a number of people to go home thinking that they had seen the new U. S. open golf champion. Gene Sarazen had put away his clubs, with a 302. "Wild Bill" Mehlhorn of the mighty wrists had gone wild after a few under-par holes. Walter C. Hagen finished with an ignoble round of 81. Robert Tyre Jones, amateur, 1926 open champion (TIME, July...
Sirs: TIME'S spicy, well written columns are marred by one thing. The magazine is too local. As a newsmagazine it should be more liberal, more cosmopolitan. Since when is Ontario an "American" State,- or Windsor a suburb of Detroit ? Since when is the business of Ontario NATIONAL AFFAIRS of the United States...
...Ontario found no riots, no tremendous exodus from the U. S., no Detroit invasion of Windsor. It did find, however, interminable queues of applicants lined up before the liquor-store doors. The first U. S. citizen to make a purchase was one Fayette Bristol of Highland Park (Detroit suburb); Mr. Bristol toted away an undetermined quantity of Old Crow whiskey...
Labor? This question was asked particularly by citizens of Windsor, Ontario, Canadian border city, suburb of Detroit. To them the answer to the question looked like an unpleasant affirmative...
...calories to sustain life, has all unknowingly lunched with the Governor of his Commonwealth. For Governor Fuller, rich today, was born poor; is self-made; eats luncheons at Thompson's in preference to dining at the Copley Plaza, the Touraine, the Statler. Born 49 years ago in Maiden (suburb of Boston), Governor Fuller left school at the age of 14, taking a job in a rubber factory to help support his widowed mother. At 17 he went into business for himself, opened a bicycle repair shop. On Saturday afternoons he rode in bicycle races, became Junior Champion...