Word: gardenful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Restricted to students from the Garden State, the organization will exist for "social reasons...
...eternally on the high, craggy peaks of the Russian Caucasus mountains where the loftiest pinnacle in Europe, Mt. Elbrus, reaches 18,481 feet into the sky. Yet the deep green Caucasus valleys are lush with camphor trees, tangerines, bananas and even tropical palms. There, Caucasian tradition has it, the Garden of Eden was located, and there, as in Author James Hilton's mythical Tibetan valley of Shangri-La, native tribesmen live an incredibly long time. Ages well over 100 are commonplace in the Caucasus, a land of mixed nationalities which include gypsies from India, Turks, pure-blooded Semites, Finns...
...other things were unsure in the winter of 1948-49, but most U.S. basketball fans thought they knew one thing for a fact: the two best teams in the country were Kentucky and St. Louis. Their meeting in the finals of the National Invitation Tournament in Madison Square Garden was to be the big climax of the season. Last week the big moment came, but neither Kentucky nor St. Louis was there to meet it. In the biggest double upset of the season they had been knocked out of the championship class...
...Bradley University (55-5O) as well as of Kentucky. Meanwhile, San Francisco's Dons, also an unheralded lot, had beaten Manhattan (68-43), Utah (64-63) and Bowling Green (49-39)Towels & Value. On the night of the finals, 18,297 crowded into the Garden, hoping for a scoring duel between brawny, 6-ft.-6-in. Jack Kerris of Loyola and skinny, 6-ft.-6-in. Don Lofgran of the Dons. Loyola had brought a large cheering section from Chicago. The San Francisco delegation, led by stocky Mayor Elmer E. Robinson, was much smaller; but at the last...
...regularly shows up with stacks of tablets and boxes of pencils for students who cannot afford them. Last week, Joe got something he has been after for a long time: a local club offered to buy him a plow so that he and his students could start a garden of their own. Another club had already provided the seeds, and a dairy company the fertilizer...