Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kept up an unceasing pace, walking to and fro on the platform before his audience, remarking that "its harder to hit a moving object with a pop bottle than a stationary one." Pop bottles are as out of place at Soldiers Field as they are welcome at Fenway Park, and the Harvard team can rise to new heights of baseball proficiency when pop bottle tactics are banished from the bench and the bases...
...last week when the Conte Rosso ploughed into Manila Bay all the bells in the city, all the craft in the Bay, including 15 "floating hotels" for Congress pilgrims, set up a prodigious din while 25,000 Filipinos cheered on the Luneta, the city's spacious waterfront park. Welcomed by Manila's Archbishop Michael J. O'Doherty, Mayor Juan Posadas, and the pious Vice President of the Commonwealth, Sergio Osmeña, Papal Legate Dougherty wept happily. Although many U. S. Catholics consider him a self- possessed, even arrogant man, his voice choked when he presented...
...Italian, Luigi Beccali, Olympic 1,500-metre champion in 1932, chose not to run, wanting more time to train. The Hungarian, Miklos Szabo, who recently broke the world record for 2,000 metres, canceled his entry after he caught cold walking in Central Park. The identical twins, Blaine & Wayne Rideout, students from North Texas State Teachers College, did run, but fared badly...
...Kent, Conn, one Samuel McWhinnie, 42, was charged with burglary for having broken into a shed on the Hyde Park estate of Miss Ellen Roosevelt, cousin of the President, and stealing four small sailboat models which Franklin Roosevelt carved with his own hands...
...greatest advance made by either side since Madrid settled down to bloody siege (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.) came last week when the defending Red Militia swarmed over the West Park in Madrid's northwest section, where the Whites had strongly entrenched themselves. This followed after three days of downpour had sent millions of gallons roaring down the Guadarrama and Manzanares Rivers, which overflowed into the White trenches. Gun carriages sank into seas of mud. Dripping wet and nipped by freezing cold, the White troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco withdrew to higher ground, surrendering the waterlogged region...