Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jones, who is engaged in developing the national parks and monuments of Southern Utah and Northern Arizona, will deliver a lecture explaining the recent road construction that has made accessible to the public the natural beauties of Zion Park and the northern rim of the Grand Canyon. His lecture will be well illustrated by colored lantern slides, and will be held definitely in the Living Room at 7.30 o'clock...
...Union management announced late last night, that Randall I, Jones, national park expert, would not be able to reach Cambridge by tomorrow, and that as a result, his Union lecture had been postponed until Friday...
...Zion Park is the nation's latest natural park. It was not until three years ago that, largely due to Mr. Jones' work, the park came within the reach of the public. The railway opur from Utah to Cedar City was opened at that time by President Harding on his ill-fated western trip from which he never returned...
Sculptor Frederick MacMonnies, creator of "Civic Virtue," effigy in City Hall Park, Manhattan, declared last week that he had learned to like the nickname, "The Rough Guy," which newspaper wits bestowed upon his statue. "I have suffered much," said...
...When a Koch discovers the tubercle bacillus, a Banting discovers insulin for the relief of diabetes, or a von Behring an antitoxin for the cure of diphtheria, or a Park demonstrates the value of the antitoxin for the prevention of diphtheria, the world draws a long breath as if saying to itself, 'Now we are rid of that terror which has haunted the human race for centuries.' It then straightway forgets and goes on its way comfortably, assuming that, of course, the great discovery or invention is being carried into effect...