Word: hydes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site at Hyde Park received a wire recorder, planned to use it to preserve personal reminiscences of people who had known the late President...
...short distance east of the old Roosevelt mansion at Hyde Park, is on an 842-acre tract which the partners bought from the Franklin D. Roosevelt estate last year for $85,000. The building, an old remodeled white farmhouse, has rooms for 44 guests, can accommodate 100 diners at a time. Next year the Roosevelts hope to build a much bigger place modeled after F.D.R.'s stone "hideaway house" at Hyde Park...
...manipulation of sound in poetic expression, which can be seen in such lines as "Proud parabolas upon the deep/Receding blue . . ." It is a pity that only one of his poems has been printed in an issue so barren of this kind of dynamic and beautiful writing. Joan Hyde's atmospheric "Night Picture" communicates through precise visual detail, but her other poem is less successful because it leaves sensuous impressions and starts trying to delve into the abstract...
...Michigan Agricultural College, Liberty Hyde Bailey founded the first department of horticulture in any U.S. college. Six years later, he went to Cornell. He set up its first departments of plant pathology, plant physiology, plant breeding and soil technology. As dean of Cornell's College of Agriculture, he raised the faculty from eleven to 100, increased student enrollment from 100 to 1,400. He wrote over 50 books on plants and plant life, edited 50 more. But between books and classes, he always found time to hitch up his horse & buggy and drive out to tell neighboring farmers...
...Dominion." Some time in his teens, Liberty Hyde Bailey made a plan for his life: he would spend 25 years learning, 25 years teaching, and 25 years doing "what I like best." Accordingly, one day in 1913, he simply failed to show up at the dean's office. He went to his Hor-torium (he coined the word) instead. Ever since that day, he has been doing "what I like best"-puttering in his greenhouse ("It is an oasis in one's life. . . . One has dominion"), cultivating his palms (he has the best collection in the world...