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Dapplemere and was
Although Dewey served as a prosecutor and District Attorney in New York City for many years, his home from 1938 until his death was a large farm, called " Dapplemere ", located near the town of Pawling some north of New York City.
According to biographer Richard Norton Smith, Dewey " loved Dapplemere as did no other place ", and Dewey was once quoted as saying that " I work like a horse five days and five nights a week for the privilege of getting to the country on the weekend.
Both he and his wife are buried in the town cemetery of Pawling, New York ; after his death his farm of Dapplemere was sold and renamed " Dewey Lane Farm " in his honor.

Dapplemere and community
Dewey lived on a large farm called " Dapplemere ," located in the Quaker Hill community on the outskirts of Pawling.

was and part
The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.
Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.
Over and above that, however, was his growing suspicion of Chuck Stober's part in recent events.
Singing into the mirror and his interested eyes, he was pleased to note, when he stripped for his own bath, that he still had the best part of his Italian sun tan.
As he watched the man sit suddenly, a detached part of his mind observed how very difficult it was, really, to knock a man off his feet.
School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.
Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.
even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.
Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??
The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.
This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;
I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.
Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.
It was part of Little Jack's work to look after the dogs.
The word was that this too was part of an economy move on his part.
Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.
Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.
As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.
Sherman felt that his own part in the campaign was skillful and well executed but that the slowness of a part of his army robbed him of the larger fruits of victory.
The Prince took her with him on every tour around the area, and it was rumored he was utilizing her knowledge of Constantinople as part of his espionage network.

was and tight-knit
The all-male Gate House was known as a social centre and spirited, tight-knit community.
While it was traditionally one of the smaller ones of the five New York families, it was more tight-knit than the others.
In addition to the songwriting prowess of the writers and producers, one of the major factors in the widespread appeal of Motown's music was Gordy's practice of using a highly select and tight-knit group of studio musicians, collectively known as " The Funk Brothers ", to record the instrumental or " band " tracks of a majority of Motown recordings.
Gordy was brought up in a tight-knit family with strong morals.
Their tight-knit pan-Maghreb community had the ability to use social sanctions as a credible alternative to legal recourse, which was anyway weak at the time.
This tight-knit political grouping was opposed by the " Country Whigs ", led by Robert Harley, who gradually merged with the Tory opposition in the later 1690s.
He has a younger brother, Timothy, and three sisters, Ann, Amy, and Erin, and was raised in a tight-knit Roman Catholic family in Conway, Washington.
In days past the village was a small and tight-knit community ; since then it has undergone a rapid expansion.
" Valentino is surrounded by a tight-knit family of friends and employees, but, eventually, their guard came down and they forgot there was a camera crew in the room.
With each capo controlling an estimated half-dozen to a dozen other soldiers, Indelicato's faction was a tight-knit, significant force.
One of their earliest commissions was Henderson Place, a tight-knit group of two dozen houses built in 1882 and located at 86th Street and East End Avenue in Manhattan.
He was born into a prolific and tight-knit sporting family.
It was a tight-knit community with many families attending the same church congregations or sharing the bond of migration.
He was raised in a " tight-knit " Jewish family.
The family was tight-knit and inherited many of values that their parents brought to them.
This suggests that this was a very tight-knit community, with the inhabitants using the large hall for events such as feasts and story-telling.

was and rural
He was a wiry, inscrutable, silent country boy from the red clay of rural Alabama, and he spoke with the broad drawl that others normally make fun of.
Voting preparations began in the fall of 1959, although the actual demarcation and planning for the rural communes was completed in 1958.
The jury foreman, Mrs. Olive Heideman, of rural Elsie, said that a ballot was not even taken until yesterday morning and that the first day of deliberation was spent in going over the evidence.
The rural area surrounding Adelaide was surveyed by Light in preparation to sell a total of over of land.
Arcadianism was based on nostalgic memories of rural England, and led to the widespread creation of orchards and gardens.
The Country Life Movement was a loose grouping of social reformers, church leaders, and urban progressives ; they sought solutions for rural economic decline, social stagnation, and the depopulation of the countryside.
The movie was set in 1920s rural Mexico.
Religion was stripped of ornament and ceremony, and made as plain and simple as possible ; sermons and songs often used repetition to get across to a rural population of poor and mostly uneducated people the necessity of turning away from sin.
It was divided into seven rural bailiwicks and four administrative cities, Aarau, Zofingen, Lenzburg and Brugg.
The program's goal was to defoliate forested and rural land, depriving guerrillas of cover ; another goal was to induce forced draft urbanization, destroying the ability of peasants to support themselves in the countryside, and forcing them to flee to the U. S. dominated cities, thus depriving the guerrillas of their rural support base and food supply.
The goal was to defoliate rural / forested land, depriving guerrillas of food and cover and clearing sensitive areas such as around base perimeters.
The program was also a part of a general policy of forced draft urbanization, which aimed to destroy the ability of peasants to support themselves in the countryside, forcing them to flee to the U. S. dominated cities, depriving the guerrillas of their rural support base.
" The claim was true, oddly enough because of wide analog coverage in rural areas.
While this was OK for Europe, it meant that GSM could not cover large, sparsely populated rural areas of Australia cost effectively.
Telstra deployed a CDMA network, which did not suffer this limitation, and while the AMPS network was closed down at the end of 1999 in the major cities, the closure deadline was extended until the end of 2000 in rural areas to ease the transition to CDMA.
The immense popularity of Potter ’ s books was based on the lively quality of her illustrations, the non-didactic nature of her stories, the depiction of the rural countryside, and the imaginative qualities she lent to her animal characters.
Writing was introduced during the French occupation and literacy is limited, especially in rural areas.
It has been suggested that the increasing interest in traditional popular ballads during the eighteenth century was prompted by social issues such as the enclosure movement as many of the ballads deal with themes concerning rural laborers.
The ballad was taken to Australia by early settlers from Britain and Ireland and gained particular foothold in the rural outback.
" Arkadaşım Eşşek " (" My Friend Donkey "), quickly grew very popular among children ( the song is about rural nostalgia and was not initially intended as a children's song ).

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