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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...
...Court majority will force the governments of the states into the position of arbiters over just what in the spiritual field constitutes public service. For, under the reasoning of Justice Black, who rendered the majority opinion, there can be no denying the right of any religious group to duplicate playground, cultural or after-hours activities offered by the community, and then to demand state financial support of the same type granted the public efforts. If New Jersey taxpayers must finance the transportation of students to parochial schools, what is the logical barrier between this type of subsidy and subsidy...