Word: parks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening, crowds began to assemble. About 2,000 admission tickets had been issued. Some 10,000 people gathered in the park opposite the ball and listened "by amplifier...
...Army airplane from Mitchell Field, L. I., flew above Central Park, Manhattan. The airplane carried a sending and receiving set and a similar set was erected in the park beneath. An officer in the sky then chatted with an officer on the ground. The receiving station on the ground amplified the aeronaut's words and the entire conversation of both men was sent by wire to the radio casting station of WJZ in Aeolian Hall, three miles away, and there put again on the air for radio fans to hear...
...Mike are the heroes of many a story, but not of the story of the 1924 Tailteann Games. The mighty Oisin and warlike King Cuchullin would have mourned the passing of their country men's valor had they been on the green at Croke Park, Dublin, to see U. S. athletes romp off with the Irish games with 64½ points. Ireland was second with 43½ , Australia 16, South Africa 6, England 6, Canada 5, New Zealand 2, Scotland...
...reason that the Department is making this offer-absolutely free and with only a few obligations on your part-is that Yellowstone Park is becoming overstocked with buffalos and the cost of feeding them is growing greater every year. Originally, only a few animals could be obtained to stock the Park, and the Department feared that the species would soon become extinct. Not so. The herd grew steadily, until now there are 730 fine specimens of this healthy breed. Last Spring alone, there were 114 calves. The Interior is unwilling to kill these animals, and so offers them, a limited...
There is no cause for you to be alarmed by the rapid rate of increase of the buffalo, for, although you are bound to care for and not to kill the specimen you get from the Park, you are not bound to preserve the life of any offspring to which your animal may give birth...