Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When George Bernard Shaw told her that tennis should be played by nude young women in the long grass of the meadows, she "tried not to let a flicker of expression cross my face...
Officials have observed the situation for some time. But realization has been slow in arriving that these children are bad because they have never had an athletic field or a football of their own. Eve was never more tempted in Eden than these on the outskirts of a grass plot they must not walk on. It isn't that the children deserve any attention, though of course they do. It is simply that Harvard both holds out the temptation and hides the whipping...
Peace especially visited the seven miles of tunnels, 140 miles of costly, well-constructed roadbed through the nine dark ridges of the Alleghenies. Grass overgrew "South Penn" embankments, saplings pushed their way through its rock ballast and water seeped higher and higher over the rubble of the tunnels. For half a century nothing stirred in those dark caverns except some albino, sightless trout which according to Pennsylvania Highway Planning Division's Director Kaulfuss "mysteriously developed in these unnatural, impounded waters...
...feet trod is a reflection of your conduct. In college or in life one cannot afford to be thoughtless in any sense of the word. In New York's Washington Square--where the Fifth Avenue busses route and non-descripts fill the benches, there is a sign on the grass with an imaginative, although true message. It runs something like this...
...Will someone please explain to a bewildered layman what all this has to do with education?" asks Mr. Tunis in conclusion. "No wonder President Hutchins of Chicago observes that the American colleges today offer fresh air, green grass, good food and exercise, exactly the same as the resort hotels...