Brookline

[ brook-lahyn ]

/ ˈbrʊkˌlaɪn /

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a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.

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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.

In Brookline and Somerville in Massachusetts, for example, it’s been well-chronicled how the goal posts have continuously moved, vividly illustrating that the forces opposing school reopening are ideological, lacking a solutions-oriented agenda.
Blue States Are Failing Their Students by Not Reopening Schools. Here's How They Got It So Wrong|Paymon Rouhanifard|April 12, 2021|Time
In addition to his wife of 42 years, of Brookline, survivors include two children from his second marriage, Alexander Glauber and Amelia Glauber, both of New York.
Robert Glauber, Harvard business professor and ranking Treasury official, dies at 81|Louie Estrada|March 4, 2021|Washington Post
Branger and partners didn’t come to the decision to put their Brookline and Cambridge locations on ice easily.
Why Restaurants Are ‘Hibernating’ and What That Really Means|Hillary Dixler Canavan|December 18, 2020|Eater
Myron Leon Wallace was born in Brookline, Mass., in 1918, a year after John F. Kennedy was born five doors away.
Mike Wallace Reconsidered: 6 Revelations From a New Biography|The Daily Beast|April 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST

I went back to Brookline soon after that to send in the story and do some telephoning.
The Fire People|Ray Cummings
The reports showed it to be slightly smaller in size than the Brookline meteor.
The Fire People|Ray Cummings
Meanwhile the light at Brookline was under constant surveillance.
The Fire People|Ray Cummings
He was accidentally called to attend a young lady belonging to a very wealthy family out in Brookline.
Ester Ried Yet Speaking|Isabella Alden
He is said to have marked success; and, of course, since the Brookline occurrence his practice is largely among the wealthy.
Ester Ried Yet Speaking|Isabella Alden