Word: eucalyptuses
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Under the soft glow of colored lights playing on bowers of palm and eucalyptus trees, a comfortable but by no means spectacular crowd of 25,000 began to see the fair sights in earnest. In the Palace of Science was many a 20th Century industrial gadget and the original gold spike with which Leland Stanford joined the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads in 1869. In the Ford Bowl was playing the San Diego Symphony, to be followed throughout the summer by orchestras from Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and the 250-voiced Mormon Tabernacle Choir from Salt Lake...
...Provost Monroe Emanuel Deutsch. Behind them, Citizen Hoover and General David Prescott Barrows, the university's onetime president who led the National Guard to break up the General Strike when Miss Perkins dallied. Mr. Hoover slipped into his gown just before the procession puffed through a fringe of eucalyptus trees. Alumni fixed cushions on the Theater's stone tiers, then hushed as the procession ended. On the stage professors shielded their eyes against a blazing sun. A Catholic priest was delivering an invocation. President Sproul was booming out his thanks to the kind souls who gave...
...United States (Mt. Whitney, 14,496 ft.), sinks to the continent's deepest dimple (Death Valley, -276 ft.). In the fragrant gloom of Sequoia National Park indigenously grow some of the world's hugest trees; yet most Californians rest under the shade of the transplanted Australian eucalyptus. Across the State's deserts, prospectors still ride dusty, neat-footed burros, while at Santa Monica mechanics in the Douglas plant build some of the world's fastest passenger planes. To California William Randolph Hearst brings Old World treasures by the carload; at his San Simeon estate third-rate...
...capacity on big-game days. Nearby is the stadium which seats 90,000 people. The vast Stanford campus includes one of the finest Pacific Coast golf courses, two lakes, a polo field as well as two great gymnasiums and many a smaller playing field and game court. Dotted with eucalyptus trees, handsomely landscaped, it encloses a central group of rambling Spanish-Romanesque buildings. Most of the male students live in dormitories. Though there are many fraternities (with houses of their own) the dormitory groups, which have intramural eating clubs and cliques, are more influential in campus affairs. Besides the girls...
...Most spectacular Manhattan function was given ... by Mr. & Mrs. Franklyn L. Hutton for their daughter Barbara. . . . Guests: 1000. Cost: $100,000. Item: 2,000 cases of champagne. Setting designed by Joseph Urban; a moonlit garden with eucalyptus sprays, silver birches, potted roses, a gauze canopy speckled with stars." (TIME...