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- proper noun a neighborhood located in Boston, MA
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It's in a very gritty, blue-collar neighborhood called Mission Hill such south of downtown Boston.
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It was part of a mixed-income, owner-occupied, townhouse community being built in Mission Hill.
Randy Susan Meyers: How Ted Kennedy Helped Me Home Randy Susan Meyers 2010
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When I started Mission Hill in Boston, we began not with an Outward Bound ropes course, but with a course run by Eleanor Duckworth of Harvard read The Having of Wonderful Ideas with 10 parents, 10 Harvard students, and our original 10 staff members.
Meier: Partisan mindsets and teacher collegiality Valerie Strauss 2010
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At both Mission Hill and Central Park East Secondary School, (two successful urban public schools) we graduated our students only after they successfully defended their work before a committee that consisted of both friends and expert strangers.
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Dodging traffic between Fillmore Street and Mission Hill, Kaplan personally wheeled in its colossal block of lead shielding on an automobile jack borrowed from a neighboring garage owner.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Back in the days of the crazy housing boom in Boston, when prices went insane, jumping by hundreds of thousands in a few short years, the Mission Hill triple-decker where I rented an apartment for my daughters and myself was sold to a gonna-get-rich-condo guy who quadrupled our rent to an impossible sum.
Randy Susan Meyers: How Ted Kennedy Helped Me Home Randy Susan Meyers 2010
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Back in the days of the crazy housing boom in Boston, when prices went insane, jumping by hundreds of thousands in a few short years, the Mission Hill triple-decker where I rented an apartment for my daughters and myself was sold to a gonna-get-rich-condo guy who quadrupled our rent to an impossible sum.
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The district covers the western portion of Boston starting at Mission Hill, through JP and part of Roslindale, through West Roxbury the blue area on this map PDF.
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It was part of a mixed-income, owner-occupied, townhouse community being built in Mission Hill.
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Dodging traffic between Fillmore Street and Mission Hill, Kaplan personally wheeled in its colossal block of lead shielding on an automobile jack borrowed from a neighboring garage owner.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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