Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Metropolitan buses tightly lined up along 15th Street blocked the marchers off from the front lawn of the White House...
This week, the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) refused to let the club build its new sailing facility at an MDC-owned site on the Somerville shore of the Mystic River Basin...
...which controls most of Metropolitan Boston's riverside parks-took the action after Somerville officials had attacked the proposed lease of the land to the yacht club. Arguing that this city could not afford the loss of the recreation land, Rep. Vincent Pire (D-Som.) said, "Harvard should stay on the banks of the Charles and leave the Mystic River alone...
When nations were smaller than they are today, Athens could be great with 100,000 people, Renaissance Florence with 60,000, Alexandria with 700,000 and ancient Rome with something like 1,000,000-no more than live in metropolitan Indianapolis now. To represent all the diverse elements of much more populous societies-diversity is one essential of greatness-the city must now have a population of several millions. Cincinnati and Phoenix, to cite two typical American provincial cities, may be agreeable places to live in, but they are simply not large enough to contain, as does New York...
...replaced the Green Hornet while we sat around in the cabin before dinner. Lying around on the shelves were copies of The Chairman, -with Gregory Peck on the cover, an Oscar Wilde anthology, a Thoreau anthology, and The Age of Rock Jerry discussed Peter Fonda, Edward Albee, and the Metropolitan Opera strike...