In mid-February 1917 a women's movement independent of political affiliation erupted in New York City, the stronghold of the Socialist party in the United states.

1917年2月中旬，一场独立于政治派别的妇女运动在纽约市爆发，纽约市是美国社会党的大本营。

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“Detroit is the largest city of opportunity in the world,” declared a city directory in the mid-1920s.

20世纪20年代中期的一份城市目录宣称“底特律是全球最大的机会之城”。

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The origins of the event are unclear although it is thought to have its roots in a food fight between childhood friends in the mid-1940s in the city。

西红柿大战的起源至今尚不清楚，但传说是起源于上世纪40年代中期当地孩童之间用食物互相扔掷打闹的习俗。

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The small pilot project involved 10 video consultations between stroke patients and a team of rehabilitation specialists in Thunder Bay, a mid-size city near the U.S.border.

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Attorney General Eric Holder. President Barack Obama goes to Mexico City in mid-April to meet Mr.Caldron before both leaders attend the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago.

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Winston-Salem is one of them. It's a mid-sized city in what's called the Piedmont, or plateau, between the Atlantic Coast and the inland mountains in the state of North Carolina.

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Just boosts up the neighborhood, let them know that mid-city is up and running, you know.

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Mr. PATRICK WILLIAMS (Assistant Director, Marching Band): It's not Endymion if they don't do the mid-city route, you know.

NPR: Mardi Gras Gives a Smaller Bounce to New Orleans

But the band's assistant director, Patrick Williams knows that this parade, called Endymion, used to roll through mid-city, a neighborhood that was flooded.

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