Word: overgrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worst eye-sores about Cambridge is the plot of land controlled by the college on the corner of De Wolfe and Mill Streets. Overgrown with weeds, surrounded by a broken-down fence, it appears to serve absolutely no useful purpose. Meanwhile students are forced to hire costly garages or run the risk of an expensive and annoying appearance in court. The land could be filled in, levelled off with cinders, and turned into a satisfactory parking space at a very nominal cost. A small charge, sufficient to defray the original outlay and to provide for the up-keep might well...
...Many rum distilleries which did a good business before Prohibition are half overgrown by jungles...
When Japan added Jehol Province to its Manchurian grab in 1932, it got one splendid old ruin with its haul-the 17th Century hunting lodge of the old Manchu Emperors of China, spread over the hills outside Jehol City. By last week it was still overgrown with weeds but Japan planned to make it fresh and new to remind Manchukuans of the ancestral glories of their puppet Emperor Kang...
...tireless a traveler as Keyserling, "the travel-philosopher," Julius Meier-Graefe, 66, has nearly finished his journey. Along the road he has seen and called attention to many an overgrown but inspiring ruin. He wrote the first history of painting of the 19th Century, started an arts & crafts shop, founded a literary journal (Pan), made European collectors aware of Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne. He went to Spain to bend the knee to Velazquez, returned a blazing disciple of El Greco. Though he is a frequent contributor to International Studio and Cahier d'Art, few of his more than...
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