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Word: parkes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the more local frantic antics of 2000 high school musicians who cavorted between the halves of the Donelli-led Boston University upset over Colgate in Fenway Park, the New England accolade for musical mayhem still went to the Crimson bandsmen over the weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undefeated Band Carries Blue Day | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...more than doubled the number of playgrounds and swimming pools. Among the items on his agenda: a huge boys' club for the city's worst slum, the "Irish Channel"; the rebuilding of old Shakespeare Park in the heart of the Negro district...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Old Girl's New Boy | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...under-and overpasses, the filling of the now useless canal which bisects the city. If he has his way, slums will be cleared, a new civic center will rise and the whole city will be spanned by super-express highways already designed by New York's equally energetic Park Commissioner Robert Moses. His opponents call Chep "Little Caesar," "Big Head" and "The Kid Mayor," but they have learned to respect his punch and zing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Old Girl's New Boy | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...hundred-eighty-seven University car owners have aligned themselves behind the proposed Soldiers Field parking plan, poll tabulations showed last night, while 115 men have definitely refused to park their autos in the H.A.A. controlled field near the Allston horseshoe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Autoists Pick Soldiers Field Space in Poll | 11/15/1947 | See Source »

Four years ago, when rangy Bobby Layne and trim Doak Walker played in the same backfield at Dallas' Highland Park high school, they were inseparable cronies. Then Bobby went to Texas and Doak to Southern Methodist. Last week, each an All-America candidate on an unbeaten team, the two pals sailed into one another before a full house in Dallas' Cotton Bowl. It was the game the Southwest had waited for all season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Unbeaten | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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