Word: playground
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five minutes later, 33-year-old Leslie Pawson, Pawtucket playground instructor, bounded over the finish line to become the fourth two-time winner in the 42-year history of the famed Boston race. His time-over the grueling, hilly course from Hopkinton to Boston...
...they were educated in pain as well as pleasure: as they watched Albuquerque's firemen climb a building, a rope broke. Firemen Frank Parenti and George Tafoya fell 40 feet, were seriously injured. The children agreed to spend part of the money they had been saving for playground equipment to send flowers to the firemen...
...research committee definitely established Cooperstown as the birthplace of baseball. Civic-proud Cooperstownians, whose pastoral background had already been immortalized as the home town and nameplace† of James Fenimore Cooper, bought the original baseball field, spent $25,000 to transform it into a modern ball park and public playground, named it Doubleday field. Three years ago, in anticipation of the 100th birthday of the game, baseball bigwigs and benefactors joined hands to make Cooperstown a bigger, better shrine. To preserve its treasures, baseball sentimentalists decided to build an imposing three-story colonial brick museum. To immortalize its heroes, baseball...
...Mahoney has made every effort to encourage indoor and outdoor athletics and arrange for inter-playground competition. For example, he has organized 64 basketball teams and arranged 393 games for them this winter. If many children still ignore these facilities, it is possibly because fields are lacking in their neighborhood and great traffic arteries, such as Massachusetts Avene, prevent their going far afield. P. B. H. men could act as recruiting officers, rounding up youngsters and convoying them to the grounds, but any children they attempted to care for privately would be deprived of the city-wide playground program...
...This plan was tried once before with a Boston playground," Dennett said yesterday, "but it failed because ther wasn't any snow for winter sports. I don't think we'll have that trouble this year...