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Word: abington (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just what kind of leaders do they have in the party who whine like a child when the smallest storm arises? Those lackluster politicians who ever since this investigation broke have been sounding like sob sisters trying to make Adams quit -who needs them? CHARLES F. BUTLER North Abington, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 20, 1958 | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

Died. William Spellman, 97, onetime New England grocer, father of Francis Cardinal Spellman. Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York; in Abington, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 21, 1955 | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

They were solid citizens. Many were farmers; they lived and died in the big house for 100 years. Then about 1800 Priscilla Shallcross married Samuel Roberts at Abington Meeting House, and the house and its surrounding acres were passed on to their descendants. The Roberts tribe enlarged the place until it boasted 19 rooms and a 110-ft. porch, and they, in turn, tilled the farm for 120 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: The House | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

Born. To Robin Roberts, 26, the Philadelphia Phillies' pitching ace, and Mary Kalnes Roberts, 25: their second child, second son; in Abington, Pa. Name: Don Stephen. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 20, 1953 | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

...Hingham, Mass., 821 meeting-goers considered a proposal to grant eight families living on Abington Street, near the town boundary, a $7,000 loan so that they can have a water-piping system installed. Hingham's advisory committee opposed the loan on the grounds that it would "set a bad precedent." But then Mrs. John L. Kroesser told the meeting about the toil and trouble the lack of water pipes caused her and her neighbors: "After our wells went dry last August, we had to carry water from Rockland, about a mile away, and we kept this up until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ENGLAND: By the People | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

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