Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only the Meiji would know. Firm in this conviction a spruce file of puzzled Japanese Army officers rode out from Tokyo one dawn last week to a pungent park of pine and camphor trees. They crossed a gurgling brook, entered a spotlessly clean quadrangle and faced with awe the Meiji Shrine, an unpainted wooden building, austere, impressive and, to Japanese, sublime...
...came into the stretch last week at Rockingham Park Race Track (near Salem, N. H.) the urchin who was riding Quick Step scarcely heard the crowd at the rail yelling, "Come on, Westrope." Jockey Westrope paid more attention to the pounding of hoofs coming up closer and closer behind him, made by Bun D, with Jockey Porter up. He drew his whip, leaned forward in his stirrup, almost lifted Quick Step across the finish line-still ahead by barely a nose. It was the second race that Jockey Westrope had won that afternoon. It brought his record for the year...
Potent people were popping in and out of No. 820 Park Ave., Manhattan every day last week. Governor Lehman had traveled down from Albany to try once again to straighten out Mayor O'Brien's fumbled finances. Bankers were summoned to the Governor's home to talk about loans. President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange was pumped to see if he was bluffing about moving to New Jersey (TIME, Sept. 25). If Mr. Whitney was not bluffing it was plain that the tax schemes cooked up by bumbling Mayor O'Brien...
...fine is $100. I can't understand why students at Harvard who receive the finest education take such risks. They ought to know better. I guess the trouble is that their fathers have too much money and they don't take care of their cars. They don't park their cars in safe places while there are hi-jackers going around...
March 18 Dr. Charles E. Park...