Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...including every college and university in the South, I would rank the appearance, if not the cost, of Southern white colleges against those of other sections of the U. S. Duke University, Durham, N. C., for instance, has the finest single college quadrangle in the world. Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla., certainly, is as beautiful as any in the U. S. The architecture of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va., surpasses any in the country; likewise the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, is comparable to any. The Universities of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia have buildings and grounds which could scarcely...
...even tell you how he stayed up all night saving the Republican party and, incidentally, Charley Dawes's bank. However, the Park Commission rules that the tales are both recreational and restful...
...shipwrights from the silent Tyneside, locked-out weavers from the Midlands arrived with some show of spunk and morale, but the weak & weary contingent from Henry Ford's plant at Dagenham (now working at a fraction of capacity) were a disgrace to their comrades. Exhorted to parade around Hyde Park, they squatted down as soon as they reached the greensward, exerted themselves no further than to join in chanting the British Hunger March. Chorus...
...trailing a buck, when suddenly the wind shrieked and almost instantly the sky turned black. Great puffy black clouds scudded overhead. Startled, I hastily turned toward the edge of the Park where my bunch was to have met me. I hadn't come a quarter of a mile before the blizzard let loose. It was as though the whole country had been blotted out. The snow cut at my face and I couldn't keep my eyes open. I ran into trees and fell over roots. Finally, I fired my rifle into the air three times. I nearly...
...Samuel Jr. arrived in London on the crack Golden Arrow, disguised himself by taking off his spectacles, hurried to the Park Lane Hotel. "I feel like a carp taken from a muddy river and put in a goldfish bowl, under a spotlight," he told newshawks. "I have lost a fortune and now I have only a salary. I am on vacation and my boss, James Simpson, expects me back in November." In Chicago it was revealed that Samuel Jr.'s salary is $100,000 a year -$25,000 each from four Insull utilities...