Boston

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But he had two miserable seasons there, giving up more than 3½ goals a game, before being traded to Boston, where he did little better.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

According to the Cambridge Historical Society, in the late 1830s, Howe was working at a shop in Boston that made mariner’s tools and scientific equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

Elsewhere, the New York Knicks won 112-106 against the Boston Celtics, with Josh Hart scoring 26 points, to put pressure on their opponents in the Western Conference.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

At a TV internship in Boston last summer, she said she was the only one who wasn’t experienced reading from a teleprompter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

For four months of the year he attended to patients in Boston at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and lived as a bachelor in a grubby church rectory in a poor neighborhood called Roxbury.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French