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Word: neighborhood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outing Club officials figure that a good-for-nothing cyclist can leaf along ten and one-half miles in an hour, and that a hotshot, loaded with ephedrine and the will to win, can navigate the distance in the neighborhood of a half hour. For the record, the best time was turned in by one John T. Potter '42, a two time winner who hurtled the ten and a half miles in a scant 28 minutes, 30 seconds back...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 4/21/1949 | See Source »

...Temple) who believes in women's rights-especially the right to vote and to paint the nude human figure. Expelled from school for her outlandishly radical notions, Shirley returns home to disgrace her kindly clergyman-father (Robert Young), outrage her boy friend (John Agar), and throw the whole neighborhood into an uproar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 18, 1949 | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

When the moon goes into total eclipse tonight, your best bet is to head for your neighborhood bar. The blacked out satellite is being televised over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moon's Total Eclipse Gets Telecast Tonight | 4/12/1949 | See Source »

...that moment Sam was just a pensioned pumper driver from the Bayonne (N.J.) fire department, and Sam's bar & grill was like any neighborhood joint around St. Mark's Place on the Lower East Side. Its only distinctive touch was Sam's cousin, "Bottle Sam" Hock, who amused the trade by whacking tunes out of whisky bottles with a suds-scraper. But the customers got a joyful jolt when Sam opened up one morning last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Nickel In St. Mark's Place | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

When neighbors visited Mrs. Sullivan (she was popular in the neighborhood, and generous with what little she had), Gerald was locked in his room, empty but for a dirty Army cot; he had been taught not to utter a sound. Last week Anna Sullivan forgot to lock the door; he escaped while she was telephoning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Anna Sullivan's Sin | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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