Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grass-planting and grading will be' done primarily by maintenance men, but a few gardeners will be hired to assist. Other projects of the Buildings and Grounds Department include patching the paved paths in the Yard, and general touching up of worn areas...
...Pigeons on the grass alas...
...ditch defense of the Reich. But his World War II service was brief and painless. "I was with my squad of ten other men near a little town on the Rhine. We were posted in a field. It was a warm spring afternoon. We all lay down in the grass and went to sleep The next thing we knew, there were some French African troops standing over us with machine guns in their hands. We just did what they told...
When Russ Coulter became president, the T.P. & W. "not only had grass over the rails but, thanks to the spring floods, water as well." Headquarters was a rented office in Peoria's dingy Union Station; customers were practically nonexistent. Equipment was run down and morale was low. Russ Coulter, a Colby College graduate and a veteran railroader from the St. Louis-San Francisco ("Frisco") Railway Co., perked things up. Soon firemen were out on the tracks, voluntarily working at laborers' wages to put the roadbed in shape...
...Sixty years of living Architecture." The 82-year-old architect was obviously pleased with one of his recent awards, the Gold Medal of the City of Florence. Said he: "Dante wanted it and never got it. Then they go ahead and give it to an American from the tall grass of the western prairies...