Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...View. In Chicago, Lincoln Park Zoo monkeys were depressed by the newfangled glass in front of their cages-the crowds could look in, but the monkeys couldn't look out-until they found that dousing the lights again allowed them to observe the funny people outside...
Nehemiah 6. All in all, Elliott and Johnny had gotten along fine together. Elliott brought Johnny right into the family. At election time in 1944, Johnny Meyer said he was invited up to Hyde Park for a visit. He had been invited to the White House twice, he added, the second time as one of the guests for President Franklin Roosevelt's funeral...
...Manhattan, 128 white-uniformed Venezuelan naval cadets marched from the transport Cabana to the statue of Bolívar in Central Park. They heard Dr. Pedro de Alba, Mexican Ambassador to Chile and former assistant director of the Pan American Union, declare that Bolívar's spirit now lives in the 55-nation Assembly of the United Nations. It was July 24, the 164th birthday of the man for whom a country and a dozen towns* have been named...
Founding Father. The workers in Mexico, the speaker in Central Park, and many another who marked the day, remembered that Bolívar was the liberator of four countries: his native Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, an area ten times the size of mother Spain; that he founded a fifth, Bolivia, once known as Upper Peru. They forgot his fatal quarrels with associates...
Last week, to the fans' surprise, and to Connie's too, the astonishingly athletic Athletics were playing first-division ball. Arriving at Shibe Park for a home stand, they took a firmer grip on fourth place. Not since 1934 had they stood so high so late in the season. Said their old Manager Mack, who is 84 now: "I've been in baseball a long time,* but I've never seen a team like this one for spirit and determination...