Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Empire Exhibition. Glasgow citizens, 50,000 of whom are still unemployed despite the Clydebank's shipbuilding and rearmament boom, lined the streets and cheered lustily as the royal couple, riding in an open landau drawn by spanking Windsor greys, jogged out to the exhibition site, wooded Bellahouston Park. There in the neighboring Ibrox soccer stadium before 60,000 cheering Scots, King George acclaimed the exposition "a symbol of unity of the empire, the hallmark of this commonwealth of nations...
Compared to the much-postponed Paris Exposition of last year, the Glasgow fair set a record by being 98% ready on opening day. By week's end well over half a million visitors had entered the gates of the 175-acre park. Entirely a "family affair" designed to further British Empire trade relations, the exhibition is made up of pavilions representing the Home Country, the Dominions, various Crown colonies and two special halls showing off Scotland to the empire...
...little branch") after a line in one of his poems, went to inspect what will be his official home after he takes office on June 1. The granite viceregal lodge, seat of hated British power in old Ireland, resembling Washington's White House, situated in wooded, spacious Phoenix Park, will now be known as Arus an Uachtarian ("President's Residence...
...staid residents of Washington should see a dinosaur ambling through Rock Creek Park, they would be surprised. Logically they should be just as surprised at the ginkgo trees, imported from China, which actually grow in large numbers in Washington. The ginkgo or "maidenhair tree" (so called because its leaves resemble maidenhair fern) is a member of the gymnosperms, most primitive of seed plants, and is a relic of the Age of Reptiles, 150,000,000 years...
...world, the leaves of the ginkgo changed until they are now almost invariably two-lobed and kidney-shaped. In the Cretaceous period, 100,000,000 years ago, the leaves almost invariably were wedge-shaped. Last week the Smithsonian Institution announced that Dr. Roland W. Brown had discovered, in a park near the White House, a ginkgo with leaves of this Cretaceous type. "It can hardly be looked upon otherwise," said the Smithsonian, "than as an atavism or throwback over a vast expanse of time...