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Word: parkes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field officers actively engaged in ad ministering our national forests are known as "forest rangers"; such men employed by the national parks and national monuments are "park rangers" ... A forest ranger in Death Valley would be an amazing phenome non. It's a long way between trees in that country . . . May I add that your mistake is indeed a very common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Mount Rainier National Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...replaces Professor Louis C. Graton, who will retire at the end of the term. Both scientists have worked together for several years, and spent last summer taking the temperature of geysers in Yellowstone National Park...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Geologist Moves To Hooper Chair | 5/25/1949 | See Source »

...subways and elevated structures because the 'Boston Transit Department built and owns them; the MTA pays the city of Boston over $2,000,000 yearly. The most flagrant inconsistency is that the MTA, though State owned must pay the State for the use of the Cambridge-Park Street tunnel...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: Brass Tacks | 5/24/1949 | See Source »

Distinction. In Detroit, after the suburb of Highland Park put up boundary signs saying, "You are now entering the city of lower taxes," the city council voted to put up counter-signs: "You are now leaving Detroit, where life is worth living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 23, 1949 | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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