Word: district
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...investigators feared that some sex perverts would inevitably go undetected in Government jobs, but most federal bureaus and agencies, they concluded sharply, had been lazy or downright negligent about cleaning house. The Senators recommended tighter laws and harsher punishment for sex perversion in the District of Columbia, more intensive examination of job applicants...
...first call came from the town of Campbell (pop. 9,500); shortly there were calls from Los Altos (10,700), Redwood City (25,342) and Soquel (school district 4,000). MacConnell & Co. moved to each town in turn, went to work...
Sometimes they merely gave advice on what sort of furniture to buy, what soundproofing, chalkboards or gym floors. In overcrowded towns, they analyzed population trends, decided just how much more space each school district would need to take care of its students properly. In the town of Soquel, for instance, they found that the elementary-school population had risen more than 16% in a single year, that the school had tried to make room for 282 more pupils than it should, and that it had only half the desirable amount of playground space. In Los Altos, the Stanford group recommended...
...Vienna, Ninotchka, Ernst Lubitsch's sprightly 1939 spoof of Communists and the U.S.S.R., could no longer be seen. The movie had packed two of the city's theaters for weeks. But when the Russians took their turn at policing Vienna's international district, they "suggested" that it was time to change the bill...
...square mile in Manhattan referred to as the Theatre District has been quite active during the fall. Eighteen new offerings have achieved a sort of permanency on the marquees and along with nine holdovers they combine to offer the theatregoer a wide and fairly rewarding selection...