Word: playground
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Floating Cloud. The Order of the Mystic Shrine, sometimes called Masonry's "playground,"† is a kind of detached and whimsical cloud floating somewhere above Masonry's topmost branches. Its members must all be 32nd degree Masons or Knights Templar. It was started about 1870 by William Florence who was fascinated by some Oriental rites he saw in Marseille. Florence was a well-known American comedian of his day. Harold Lloyd, the new Imperial Potentate, therefore follows in a noble tradition...
...down in his study with a copy of Bertrand Russell. But L.S.U. found new President Stoke meant business about keeping politics off the campus at Baton Rouge. He wanted Louisianans to understand that the university was for education and not "an instrumentality of government." Nor was the university a playground. "Give a student a convertible and a textbook," he said, "and you cannot expect them to compete on even terms." To make sure the books won out, he reduced campus pleasure driving during school hours, restricted student phone calls in the evening, kept classrooms open all day, instead...
...Edward Victor Appleton has spent most of his 56 years with his head in the clouds. He has accomplished a lot up there. "The ionosphere," a colleague once said of Sir Edward, "is his playground." He proved the theory that the earth is circled by electrically charged layers in the upper atmosphere, came to know more about them than any man alive (there is an Appleton layer, usually about 140 miles above the earth*). His researches made possible the development of radar, won him a knighthood and the 1947 Nobel Prize in physics...
...until all children have been met--Playground of the Harvard-way Extension, Jarvis Court Bulletin Board, and Shaler Lane...
Outside of Wilmington, the council found, Delaware has no fully equipped high school for Negroes. The average school is 24 years old. Fifty have no playground equipment, 48 have only one teacher, 22 have no electricity. There are no towels in 22 schools; in eight others the pupils furnish their own. Thirty schools lack soap; only 85 have provisions for serving hot lunches. Some schools have no hot water, others have no water...