Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight lasted seven hours. Twenty times battling bobbies put on a truncheon charge. To defend the Houses of Parliament, to keep the mob from crossing the river, London's brave bobbies were obliged for the first time to rush motor cars up to Thames bridgeheads and park them close together as an impromptu barricade...
...better place to go for a selection as they all eater to some of the best jokes that wear pauts. Come on now if you have any guts and give us a reply you bunch of tin wash boards. See you in the common. A Legion Booster. Hyde Park, Mass...
...Note: The gentleman from Hyde Park apparently refers to an editorial entitled "1945," which appeared in this column on October 26. Due to the severe restrictions imposed by a penny post card, the correspondent was unfortunately prevented from explaining his position more fully. But, in those times, "12 per week" for a "tin washboard...
...expected to be close, since all three teams have been beaten once by strong opponents. Yale was defeated by a Cornell team which included runners such as Mangan, the intercollegiate mile champion; Princeton lost to Columbia by only one point in a close race over the Van Cortland Park course; and Harvard last Friday lost to the New Hampshire harriers, who were the New England champions in 1931. Princeton will have a slight advantage in the race since their runners know their own course. The two chief contenders for first place will be Arthur Foote '33, captain of the Varsity...
...Baker went back to Pittsburgh, where for some 25 years he had been associate superintendent of schools. He never recovered completely from the prostate operation. Friends noticed that Dr. Baker grew increasingly depressed Last week he seemed drawn back to Washington. Pittsburgh police hunted for a day in Highland Park, where Dr. Baker had said he was going to stroll. But it was at "Quail Hill," the morning after the storm, that a pipe-line walker named Steve Sento found the sodden body, twelve-hours dead, pistol in hand and a bullet in the head...