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Fritz Leiber

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Beside me, traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all big American cities, but which reaches its ultimate in New York.

 
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History of the New York Times, 1851-1921. Contributors: Elmer Davis - author. Publisher: New York Times. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1921.

 
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