Word: playground
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fast as a Race Horse. The flames struck hardest at Bar Harbor, Me. (pop. 4,300), summer playground of the rich and famous on mountainous, timbered Mt. Desert (pronounced dessert) Island. All one day and all through one night, a great fire eccentrically marched and countermarched around the outskirts of the town, while hundreds of soldiers and townspeople fought to control it. In the afternoon, when the shifting wind began to blow a gale from the northwest, the fire crowned into the tops of trees and leaped forward "as fast as a race horse could run," blasting through wooded estates...
Miss Robertson, in charge of the playground, found, like others before her, that the children got far more affection than those of small upper-class families. But it was casual affection; at the end of hot summer days-so Miss Robertson was told-the police could always pick up a score or so of babies left behind on Dublin Bay strand...
...world's most beautiful city and the worst thing that ever happened to Brazilians-the largest city in the world that is unabashedly and with deep conviction a playground." Dr. Tavares can hardly wait till the capital is moved to the west, and officials can really buckle down to business...
...Blackpool, his first stop in a tour of Lancashire and England's industrial Midlands. He made for Freckleton, where 61 people were killed in 1944 when a U.S. bomber crashed on the village. He chatted with the mothers of the dead children, helped shove toddlers down the playground slides, visited the communal graveyard...
...doom of the small University Hall Commons sooner or later, the immediate cause of its end was a growing tendency on the part of students to eat elsewhere as often as possible, and when they did chance to dine in Commons, to treat it as a sort of unofficial playground and circus area. The whole early history of the building's first floor features rebellion and riot, which started on a major scale in 1818, when food war broke out between classes. Each class ate in a different room, but communication was possible through the portholes, and on this particular...