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  • The development along what is now Maine Avenue SW, covering 26 miles and nearly a mile-long boardwalk, is by far the largest in scale in the quadrant's history, a transformation that replaces much of the car-oriented concrete construction of the urban renewal of the 1950s and 1960s.

    Southwest D.C. waterfront proposal shaping up Derek Kravitz 2010

  • The development along what is now Maine Avenue SW, covering 26 miles and nearly a mile-long boardwalk, is by far the largest in scale in the quadrant's history, a transformation that replaces much of the car-oriented concrete construction of the urban renewal of the 1950s and 1960s.

    Southwest D.C. waterfront proposal shaping up Derek Kravitz 2010

  • Our Mug an 'Billy get a schooner that's so bally small that they have to do their cooking in the cabin; quadrant's on a rack over the stove, and the heat warps the joints, so when Our

    Blix Frank Norris 1886

  • In the 1950s, city planners evicted nearly all of the quadrant's residents and leveled most buildings, hoping to stop the steady stream of photographs that showed Southwest's shantytowns.

    The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Elizabeth Flock 2011

  • As this gentleman had more influence over the Indians than any other person on board the Endeavour, and as there could be little doubt of the quadrant's having been conveyed away by some of the natives, he determined to go in search of it into the woods; and it was recovered in consequence of his judicious and spirited exertions.

    Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods Andrew Kippis 1760

  • Rowling's four "Hogwarts 'Houses" -- Raven's Claw, Hufflepuff, Gryffendor and Slythrin -- are but thinly disguised surrogates for the four quadrant's fledgling adherents.

    Witchvox - RSS Feed - New Articles This Week 2010

  • The sophomore release from celebrated mixed-use developer Randy Rapaport takes its name from one of the Southeast quadrant's ...

    Cool Hunting 2009

  • The sophomore release from celebrated mixed-use developer Randy Rapaport takes its name from one of the Southeast quadrant's ...

    Cool Hunting 2009

  • The way it rolls over the vocal cords like a dram of exotic nectar from the gamma quadrant's far east.

    Las Vegas News Blog 2009

  • The sophomore release from celebrated mixed-use developer Randy Rapaport takes its name from one of the Southeast quadrant's ...

    Cool Hunting 2009

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