Word: raring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cambridge residents may not have appreciated experimental research, but they did enjoy the bright, colorful display of rare plants and trees. The Gardens were a showplace for visitors; several generations of citizens spent summer afternoons in the shade of the big Austrian Pine and the prehistoric Gingko tree...
...employee pointed out a strange speciman: "That's a Chinese Umbrella tree--only one in these parts for many years," he explained. 'That Austrian Pine is pretty rare for this section of the country too." These are among the trees still standing which will be saved to landscape the new development...
Gradually, however, the Botany Department began to replace the Gardens with modern equipment; new greenhouses now hold rare live plants. War brought another shortage of expert help, and money ran low as interest lagged. The Gardens had outlived their usefulness...
...Elephants get off to a bad start and didn't hold the lead once until they won the game with a last minute goal. Farwell Smith, the standout player for Eliot, made up for his unpolished skating by speed and spirit rare in intramural hockey...
...wife (Yvonne de Carlo). But it is sharply directed by Robert Siodmak and enlivened with some fresh bits of business. Samples: a jug-nursing old gentleman (Alan Napier) who makes a specialty of planning complex holdups; the robbery of an armored car (in which Lancaster is a guard), a rare sport among real-life or cinema crooks; so much double-crossing that the cast almost needs military maps to remind them who is on whose side at any given moment...