Word: cluster
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Prolonged slump has wrought many changes in Wall Street. Lunch-hour groups of pallid clerks cluster about skyscraper entrances, talk of their latest "Scotch Week" (forced leave) in subdued tones. There are fewer limousines, fewer taxis, there is even plenty of parking space. Inside the skyscrapers, scores of vacant desks are evidence of little business, ironclad leases. Instead of an excited mob in the customers' room, a few clerks doze or play ticktacktoe...
...from the bourgeois hustle and bustle of the Square, set back in a cluster on Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge's own Fifth Avenue, lie three of the most amazing clubs in the world. Their initiation fee, a mere seventy-five to a hundred and ten dollars, is the only concrete barrier to membership. Their quarters are small but comfortable. Their purpose is neither exactly intellectual nor precisely social; it is to sell clothing...
Indicating that the decision of the CIO chieftain was motivated by a whole cluster of considerations, Nixon maintained that it was not a sell-out as it had been interpreted by some...
...doctor." One evening last week, as the candidate's voice waned into a hoarse rasp, the doctor ordered him flatly to cut it out, sat comfortably down to dinner. Suddenly the train slowed, stopped. Willkie's voice boomed through the dining-car loudspeaker. He had sighted another cluster of voters. Dr. Barnard sighed, got up, switched off the loudspeaker so that he could enjoy his food. But bull-healthy Mr. Willkie laughed last, if somewhat hoarsely. Dr. Barnard, in the vehemence of his pleading, lost his own voice. An epidemic of colds swept the train, but Willkie stayed...
...site was Little Pea Island, a bleak cluster of rocks about 150 ft. square, a mile off the shore of Westchester County. According to CBS calculations, it is the finest spot around New York City for radio transmission. Now leveling the island off, CBS engineers intend to surround it with a 16 ½ ft. sea wall, anchor a 410-ft. transmitter upon it in 39 ft. of concrete. Housed in a control building 75 ft. square will be all the equipment needed for transmission. Two telephone lines will be laid on the bottom of the Sound to carry programs from...