Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill becomes an ordinance in its present form, a local car owner can apply to the Cambridge Board of License Commissioners to be allowed to park between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. in front of a building or lot when the owner will give his permission. A permit will cost $2 for 30 days, and a new application will be required at the end of that period...
Schiller, a former professor at the University of Budapest, had been conducting special research at the Psychology Laboratory on a two-month leave of absence from the Yorkes laboratory of primate biology at Orange Park, Florida...
Other People's Houses. Millions of citizens could not get out of town but they went motoring anyhow. In Kansas City, thousands spent their evenings driving slowly through the suburbs, critically eyeing other people's new houses. Great crowds drove to the race tracks and the ball parks. Zoos, parks, botanical gardens, got their full share of the army of spring-struck automobile owners. By night youth took to the highway; couples parked in Pittsburgh's Schenley Park, in the foothills above Albuquerque, and along a thousand Old Ox Roads...
...children stared at the piles of lollipops, taffy, gumdrops, and other treasures in shop windows, many of them for the first time in their lives feeling the sweet pangs of choice. In London's Hyde Park, a queue moved forward through the brilliant sunshine as a little slate-roofed kiosk opened for business. One boy unfolded the mystery of Life Savers for his brothers: "There's nothing in them but they're awfully good. You eat them one at a time." A little girl clutched a large Cellophane-wrapped goody as if it were a doll. Explained...
Fred W. ("Lucky") Hooper watched' quietly as a high-heeled man from Texas paced the paddock at Florida's Tropical Park one day last winter. "I'll bet twenty-five on the quarter-horse," barked the Texan. A passerby peeled two tens and a five from his roll and offered to take the bet. "Put that chicken feed back in your pocket," roared the Texan. "I mean twenty-five thousand...