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Word: westons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speed limits on the highway are 60 m.p.h., maximum, and 40 m.p.h., minimum, and will be enforced by turnpike police travelling in green stationwagons. Passenger car charges range from 15 cents, from Weston to Natick, to $2.45, to the N.Y. state line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Massachusetts Turnpike Directions | 6/1/1957 | See Source »

...Weston scientists blamed yesterday's tremor on "some breakage in the earth's surface." Leet said that the Northeast has nothing comparable to the celebrated "San Andreas fault," which has been the cause of numerous spectacular earthquakes in the Pacific coast area...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leet Says Earthquake Yesterday May Be Forerunner to 'Big One' | 4/27/1957 | See Source »

Leet, who spent yesterday at the University's Seismological Center in Harvard, Mass., said that he was "having a friendly argument" with seismologists at the Weston Observatory as to just where the quake's center was. Leet's calculation placed it in the Ossippee mountains of New Hampshire, while the Weston Center put it out at sea just east of Yarmouth, Maine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leet Says Earthquake Yesterday May Be Forerunner to 'Big One' | 4/27/1957 | See Source »

...Contacted at his home in Weston, Mass., last night, Charles P. Fisher '42 had a somewhat more detailed explanation of just why he and his friend happened to be in the elevator...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: Graduate Admits Wrecking Geology Museum's Elevator | 12/6/1956 | See Source »

Twenty years later John L. Sullivan had come to Boston from Roxbury. At the advent of another tavern renaissance, society began its journey westward from Beacon Hill to Brookline and finally to Wayland, Weston, and Wellesley. Since 1900 the biggest thing that has happened to Boston is Mayor Curley and he is still happening. The sale of his library at Lauriat's a week ago started a near riot...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Boston: Pedestrian Impressions | 11/23/1956 | See Source »

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