Word: surround
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Olmsted foresaw that the "town" would soon surround his creation, installed four cross-park driveways. A touch of inspiration led him to sink the driveways below ground-level and thus preserve the park's visual harmony. Fighting off the people who wanted to embellish the park with opera houses, race tracks, cathedrals and fire stations was more difficult but almost as successful. Today, the one notable encroacher on the park's priceless real estate is the Metropolitan Museum...
...Harvard University Band, under the baton of Malcolm Holmes '28, will play at the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the National League. The affair will take place on June 2, and will surround a ball game between the Braves and the Chicago Cubs at the Commonwealth Avenue Teepee...
After saying that he regards "with equal respect--if not affection--those who worship Reason, Christ, Jehovah, a Mammon," the author of the letter goes on to make the statement, "the churches surround the Square, along with the movies and bars, for those who need to escape," The degree of respect involved here seems rather negligible and the degree of objectivity even more...
...churches surround the Square, along with the movies and bars, for those who need to escape. Let us not have the pathetic sight of a great center of individual thought purveying "sacred" opium to the frightened. An Eliot House Student Name Withheld by Request
...announcing the news of this happy betrothal of the great Farouk, [His Majesty's] Cabinet thanks Divine Providence for its beneficence, and prays that it may surround His Majesty with its high solicitude, secure his happiness and felicity, and make of this blessed betrothal a source of happy omen for beloved Egypt and for the august royal family...