Word: plante
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Regulation of Athletic Sports at its meeting tonight, involves no consideration permanence. The time is not far distant when the present concrete Stadium will be structurally unfit for use. When that time comes, there will arise the problem which can be met only by a new athletic plant. Whether the solution of the immediate difficulty employs concrete stands or steel, the temporary character of the settlement cannot be overlooked...
Last winter Mr. Bingham recommended the immediate erection of a new stadium or the enlargement of the present plant as the logical answer to the question raised by the condemnation of the old wooden seats. A vote of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers rejected this proposition and forced the falling back on an expedient device. The remedy adopted will be, like its motivating force, one of expediency...
...Casino Syndicate is corruptly concealing profits and nefariously neglecting public works which it has contracted to perform. Item: the electric plant frequently breaks down. Item: so do the waterworks. Item: ditto the telephones...
...years ago, certainly 500,000, a dumpy, pale yellow ground sloth, 8 feet long from its small head to its thick tail, lumbered terrorized near what is now El Paso, Texas. Some predatory beast was chasing it, perhaps a sabre-toothed tiger. The sloth was a plant-eating animal with soft teeth and did not know how to fight. So it could only lope towards a hole it knew. It reached the hole, scrambled over the ledge, fell 100 feet to the bottom. Bats who mat> the place their perch fluttered and squeaked fearfully, angrily. The preying beast went away...
...Brooklyn Eagle Gannett comes into possession not only of a printing plant but also of a fine tradition. Although the circulation of the Eagle is relatively small -around 80,000- and does not conflict with that of the Manhattan dailies, its editorial influence has been considerable for many decades. Walt Whitman wrote editorials for the Eagle in 1846-48; among its editors and critics have been many great names. Most recently, Dr. St. Clair McKelway, editor-in-chief up to his death in 1915, brought distinction to the paper...