Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park received the Fala Papers, a collection of letters, Christmas cards, and gifts sent to the late President's black Scottie...
...from, 10 to 50 feet, must not bend his elbow when delivering the ball. His chief aim is to knock down the batsman's wicket (see chart) for an out. The batsman, who defends the wicket, seldom tries to swat the ball out of the park (though over the fence, "a boundary," is an automatic six runs). He hopes to whack out a low grasscutter, since a ball caught on the fly is out. If he thinks he can make it, he runs for the other wicket (66 feet away) and a teammate, ready at the other wicket, trades...
...handlers gave him a soft diet of bran mash and hay, and nothing to do all day. Then gradually he was brought up to form with long jogs and short workouts. A fortnight ago, at Florida's Hialeah Park, the Big Train raced again. He won-by a few inches. Last week, with 130 Ibs. on his back,† the brown gelding did it again. Neither race was an important one, but they were impressive warm-ups for the winter's big two: the $50,000 Widener Handicap at Hialeah next week and the $100,000 Santa Anita...
William T. R. Fox, associate professor of Government, Yale University; Charles A. Micaud, assistant professor of Government, University of Virginia; Charles A. Baylis, associate professor of Philosophy, Brown University; Noel C. Little, professor of Applied Physics, Bowdoin College; and Donald O. Hebb, Reseach Fellow in Psychology, Yerkes Laboratory, Orange Park, Florida...
...read children's stories over the BBC. She took part in open-air Shakespeare productions in Regent's Park, rising from walk-ons to lines like "Will you go hunt, milord?" There was one incandescent moment when Producer-Director Michael Powell noticed her in an agent's office (he remembers her as "a plump little dumpling who was obviously going places") and wrote a bit for her into Contraband. But the bit wound up on the cutting-room floor. So Deborah continued to live at a Y.W.C.A. on 35 shillings ($7) a week and spent most...