Word: boston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston last week, famed Grocers S. S. Pierce & Co. were doing a brisk business in an item whose output is sharply limited: "Honegar," a fifty-fifty mixture of honey and apple-cider vinegar, compounded by Mrs. Catherine Perry, using frontier-housewife techniques, at Hartland Four Corners, Vt. And all over the U.S., booksellers were doing equally brisk business with an item in seemingly unlimited demand as well as supply: Folk Medicine, by D. C. Jarvis...
...finback measuring 44 ft. 2 in. and weighing an estimated 50 tons. It was no Moby Dick by temperament either: far from eluding pursuit, it seemed to seek out Dr. White. No fewer than five times it ran itself aground at Provincetown, virtually on Dr. White's Boston doorstep (though he was in Washington). Four times the U.S. Coast Guard hitched a 3-in. hawser to it and towed it out to sea, only to have it snap the line and return with a derisive spout. Fifth time, an observer phoned the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 60 miles away...
...Mind. That haunting effect begins with the eerie, keening scream of the infant Helen Keller's mother (Patricia Neal) when she discovers that her child is deaf and blind. It is warmed by the first sound of the soft, self-assured brogue of Annie Sullivan arriving from Boston to take charge of Helen. It is nourished by the overwhelming urgency of Annie's every action, her passionate need to dispense with the amenities-and with the Keller family's sentimental softness-in order to get down to the awful business of unlocking a darkened human mind...
Laboratories. In a corner of Leo's plastics factory in Boston, Mass., David developed a commercially produceable gold-bonded diode can electronic switching device for converting alternating current into direct current) that was better than anything on the market. But even after it had a product, Transitron had to wait a year before it could sell any. During that year, Leo poured nearly $400,000 into the new firm, which lost...
...Virginian." The needs of cotton, his father's health, and melodrama send Allan at twelve to live among his mother's kin on Boston's Beacon Street. Are his principles as a gallant son of the South in danger? They are, and soon there is the fateful passage: "Uncle William, you must help me. I have been reading Uncle Tom's Cabin." Yankee Uncle William promptly takes young Allan to an abolitionist meeting, where Allan learns from an escaped slave: "Yes, Virginian, there is a Simon Legree...