Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presented him with an empty docket. There had not been a single arrest in Somerville for 34 hours. Beaming even more brightly, Clerk Connolly then handed up a package from a 5-&-10? store. Contents: a pair of white gloves. Significance: When judges made a circuit of ancient English towns to hold assizes, any town which had no criminals to be tried celebrated such a "maiden assize" by presenting the judges with white gloves-because judges as a mark of submission to the Crown wore none while executing the royal commission...
...city, said he, is an organism, evolves like other living things. It begins as a village, roughly square in shape, then, constantly reaching out and expanding like an amoeba, it grows into an irregularly rectangular town, develops into a triangular metropolis, finally shoots out long tentacles or arms (the suburbs). All these processes Professor Bailey calls "conurbanisms." Within the city, also, changes in the organs take place. Thus in Chicago decentralization has been going on, and today there are 50 outlying business centres more conspicuous from the air than the Loop. Most startling observation by Professor Bailey is that...
Much to the annoyance of all parties to this agreement, a third Pittsburgh station, bustling KQV, impudently proceeded to pirate not only the broadcasts of the Pirates' out-of-town games, but of home games as well. The Pirates' owners joined NBC and its two sponsors in an appeal to the courts...
...awkward as a young colt: a nostalgic account of how everything turns out all right for virtually everyone in a little New England town in the 1920s...
Ohio's Governor Martin L. Davey, campaigning for renomination on the Democratic ticket, delivered an impassioned speech to an audience of 100 people in the town of Chardon, was dismayed to learn that the county Democratic organization had made no plans for his appearance, that the 100 were all Republicans...