Word: yarmouth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twombley's boatyard in South Yarmouth, Me. is redolent of clam flats and hot tar, rife with the cries of greedy gulls and little children. At dockside, where scores of boat owners are polishing, scraping and painting, a World War II veteran, paralyzed from the waist down, rolls up to his 32-ft. cruiser in his wheelchair, pulls himself aboard, finds his screwdriver and gets to work...
...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...
...John Foster for a small loan? If Saud can put his hand out, how about the plight of the small businessman? What with new taxes on trucks, new taxes on having over four employees, old taxes on telephones, travel, entertainment-just plain taxes ad nauseam. LOUISE BUCK ROBSHAM West Yarmouth, Mass...
...cloud of chatter, admired the companion-piece oval Boucher paintings as they gossiped. The gentlemen warmed their brandy in the Lord Nelson room, surrounded by Elizabethan paneling that Nelson himself had admired when it was on the walls of a bedroom in the Star Hotel at Great Yarmouth. The party then assembled for music...
Although they have been tried successfully in other parts of the continent, Little River dogs have never become very popular away from home. But in their own territory, people turn to stare at a hunter who works with any other dog than a toller. In Yarmouth County, at least, the hard-working dogs are appreciated. Any good duck hunter knows that given half a chance, a Little River dog will guarantee him his legal bag limit of seven birds...