Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Physiatric Institute, in Banker Otto Hermann Kahn's onetime mansion at Morristown, N. J. That was in 1920. Since then two of his pupils have branched off-Frederick S. Modern, 32, at Arrowhead Springs, San Bernardino County, Calif. (1926) and James Winn Sherrill, 39, at La Jolla, bayside suburb of San Diego, Calif...
...this year, Phillips Brooks House has received eight applications from outside organizations for entertainers. Most of these requests have come from Oliurches in the vicinity, while one has come from the South Boston Neighborhood House, and another from Reading, a suburb of Boston. Churches which have made arrangements for entertainment are the Dudley Street Baptist Church, the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, Saint Peter's Church, Saint Ausganius Church, and the First Congregational Church...
...line with the greater importance of the graduate departments that Cambridge has become a different kind of place. It is no longer a suburb of moderate size, not easy of access from the neighboring city. Harvard Square is eight minutes by subway from the heart of Boston. Old Cambridge is part of the metropolis. Its aspect has changed, and is rapidly changing more and more...
...about a million and a half. In half a century more it will have two or three million. Like the whole surrounding region, Cambridge will be more and more densely populated. It will be a place of brick and mortar, of noise and scurry and distraction, no longer a suburb of pleasant houses, shady streets, simple and quiet ways...
Until last week the Joneses and the Laughlins must have thought they had outsmarted Financier Eaton, for as soon as Mr. Girdler was made president he bought a $140,000 home in Sewickley, smart suburb, began to make his name known to other Pittsburgh families than his employers, seemed definitely settled there. But last week he resigned from Tones & Laughlin to be "actively engaged in the development of plans affecting the iron and steel industry." It was evident that the Eaton interests had. won, especially when two days later R. J. Wysor, general manager and assistant to President Girdler, also...