Word: townships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue had come to a head in Ewing Township, N.J., hereto fore chiefly noted because Washington's men marched through its woods and fields on thier way to victories at Trenton and Princeton. For some years, Ewing Township had been reimbursing parents out of tax money for bus fares paid by their children traveling to & from school. Several thousands of dollars a year were refunded to parents of public-school children. Then, under a 1941 state law, $357.74 (for a half year) went to parents who sent their children to Roman Catholic schools. The amount was trifling, but the principle...
People in & around New York's Rensselaer County know Granville Hicks as that nosey writing feller who lives on a farm (without farming it) over to Grafton township (pop. 627). Onetime college professor and repentant Communist, Hicks, 45, has been a year-round resident of Grafton .since 1935, and would probably deny that he sticks his nose into anything. But he notes with satisfaction that he, an "intellectual," belongs to the P.T.A. and the volunteer fire department, that he is secretary of the fire district, director of the Community League, editor of the town bulletin, and trustee of School...
...Ridge Observatory, 25 miles North-east of Cambridge in Harvard Township, was established as a more likely site for the systematic photography of the Northern skies. Today, armed with a Schmidt Camera--advantages; better image over larger field, astronomically speaking short (one half hour) exposures, revealing stars down to nineteenth magnitude--the staff at Oak Ridge is aiming at a complete analysis of the Milky...
Personal Aim. In Raritan Township, N.J., Albert Robinson, haled into court for throwing rocks at Eugene Michael's car, pleaded not guilty, declared: "I didn't throw rocks at the car; I threw them at Michael...
...Astronomy Department is the only one in the University which can claim as many as three more or less distant possessions. Nearest of these is Oak Ridge Observatory, established in 1932 in the midst of 40 acres of heavily wooded land in Harvard township, 25 miles Northeast of Cambridge. Oak Ridge's facilities, many of which were moved from Cambridge when the northward spread of the city rendered the old location not sufficiently free from dust and artificial lights to permit optimum conditions for astronomical observation, includes a 16 inch doublet, a 24 inch refleflctor, and a 61 inch telescope...