Word: gardenful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...development, which will provide new housing for 125 families, is scheduled for completion by the late spring of 1950. Financed by University endowment funds as an investment enterprise, the development comes after three years of pressure by the City of Cambridge asking the University to utilize the barren Botanical Garden grounds...
Last spring, the Cambridge City Council threatened to seize the Botanical Garden site by right of eminent domain unless the University built a housing development as the city had suggested several years before. At that time, University officials first announced definitely that plans would be drawn up in the near future for such a development...
...Ladies and gentlemen," the announcer said, "the Dutch national anthem!" At the Millrose Games in Madison Square Garden, 16,000 track fans rose respectfully while the band tootled an unfamiliar tune in honor of The Netherlands' miler, stringy Willy Slykhuis (rhymes, roughly, with dike mouse).* Then the band played the Swedish national anthem, for Miler Ingvar Bengtsson, and a baritone sang The Star-Spangled Banner. The crowd sat back to wait for Slykhuis and Bengtsson. No foreigner had ever won the Wanamaker Mile, but now that the mighty Gil Dodds had retired, the invaders seemed to have a fine...
...race. With supreme confidence, Gehrmann was planning to ignore Slykhuis and Bengtsson. He would run against the clock, not the competition: a fast 58-second first quarter, a 2-minute half, a 3:04 three quarters, and a record-breaking 4:05 finish. The race called for circling the Garden's banked board track eleven times...
...McCormick won top honors among the Crimson entries Saturday night when be streaked into the 45-yard hurdle finals in the sixtieth annual BAA meet in the Boston Garden...