Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shone on Miami Beach that day, and the Sunday night was chilly. Men on the hunt, women coyly at bay, people who were merely married or alone packed the twin, curving bars at the 5 O'Clock Club (where the drinks are free at 5 a.m. and 5 p.m.). Jack Dempsey brooded in a corner of his dim and crowded saloon. Fat, male Mother Kelly dished up steaks, drinks and hermaphroditic comedy at Mother Kelly's. Across Biscayne Bay, on the Miami side, painted men danced and profaned sweet songs at the Club Ha-Ha. In the casinos...
Typical of the group projects, one of the studies is undertaking a problem of the development of Magazine Beach on the Charles River in Cambridge. The students have made preliminary investigations of the community, including such problems as the distribution of playgrounds, public health provisions, and building laws, and have developed from these investigations a general layout of beach facilities. When a general plan is agreed upon, each student is assigned an individual share in the project...
Scientific Experiment. In Long Beach, Calif., a 33-year-old chiropractor named Wilfred C. Blair locked himself in a closet with a 25-lb. cake of dry ice. Aim: a "scientific experiment" with carbon dioxide. As the ice melted, it gave off C02 fumes. In 20 minutes, the chiropractor was dead. Next to his body police found a notebook containing his pulse, temperature and respiration record...
...mounting. It was not a uniform pressure; only managers with defense orders felt it seriously, bankers and salesmen still got to the club or the first tee on time. But all over the U. S., high-pressure spots were multiplying. Presidents and general managers canceled trips to Palm Beach, ate lunch and dinner at their desks. Wives fretted. Doctors warned. But still U. S. businessmen came early and left late...
...Palm Beach, many a familiar face was missing. Complained one vacationer: "There were only six people in 'Bradleys' last night...