Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...footnote to a recent article of yours [TIME, Dec. 17] unjustifiably criticized Rip's Tennis Courts at 39th Street and Park Avenue, New York City. . . . These courts are well-laid-out, well-surfaced and well...
...league teams had knocked on the door of Third Baseman Hoss Hatton's home in Beaumont, Tex. He is 23, has legs like a piano and arms like a buggy-whip, and specializes in line drives that often go clean out of the park. In four years at the University of Texas and two with an Army team, he had hit into but one double play...
...States, An Air-Conditioned Nightmare [TIME, Dec. 24], is the lightly touched point that Author Miller left Europe as soon as the going grew hard in 1940. As he had been settled in Paris since ten years "to study vice," while he "worked at panhandling and slept on park benches," we wish only that he had stayed in Europe for five years more...
...United's new plantations on the Pacific coast and in the Dominican Republic, homes for workers-complete with kitchen and Stateside toilet-are as big an advance over older hovels as a Park Avenue apartment over a cold-water flat. Minimum wages, though still less than $1 a day, are half again as high as those paid on Guatemalan-owned plantations...
Nyaaa! In Houston, motorists went on a five-day park-anywhere spree. Reason: police had run out of prescribed parking tickets...