Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closer examination of Jaakko's squad, a good basis for optimism can be found. Bob Playfair, pace-setter and captain of the Crimson pack, broke the HYP tape last year and was undefeated until he sunk spike in the Van Cortlandt Park Intercollegiate track. It was there that hills, the old Crimson cross country bugaboo, proved to be too stiff a handicap and forced him back to twentieth place. This year, however, Bob has been leading his teammates over the grassy slopes of the Brookline Country Club, loping over bunkers with apparent case and utter disregard of the Brookline Motor...
When he was a boy at Hyde Park and sailed his toy boats on the placid Hudson, Franklin Roosevelt hungered for romance on the high seas. Never having outgrown his juvenile appetite for maritime adventure, the 32nd U. S. President's eyes sparkled appreciatively last week when he stepped ashore on a Treasure Island as fabulous as Robert Louis Stevenson's. Like a big green peppermint gum drop ringed with a frost of spun sugar, the densely vegetated peaks of Cocos Island rose some 2,000 ft. over his head, while all around the island's steep...
They seem to have forgotten their true function as an opposition party. Instead, they have perched like vultures in the trees of Lafayette Park waiting for the victim to choke on alphabet soup...
...critics of the various New Deal measures it is easy to cherish a warm sympathy with Chang of the Central park...
...clock Mr.Abraham renewed his efforts. So did Chang. By mid afternoon there was a crowd of several hundred around cheering the oddly matched contestants. Finally a park Keeper arrived with some loaves of bread and the show was over...