Word: verdant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Republicans (the city administration is Democratic) suggested that, if the nudes were kept draped through the winter, the city might charge 10? a peek and so liquidate its record $3,332,000 deficit. Art lovers wanted the unveiling put off till spring, when the plaza would look more verdant and hopeful. Barrel-chested Mayor Bernard Francis Dickmann last week gathered himself together and chose a December date. Director of Streets and Sewers Frank J. McDevitt objected to the whole thing, on the ground that motorists would look at the nudes instead of watching where they were going. But St. Louis...
Last time the President asked for more WPA money, a potent factor on his side was snow on the ground in Washington. Last week, though a late March blizzard might yet come, nature sided with the Economizers. The White House lawns were verdant. Cherry and forsythia bloomed in capital gardens...
Over 100,000 square-miles in Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, gales raged up to 40, 50, even 80 m.p.h. Relatively moist and verdant this year in its south west section, protected by terracing and furrow farming, the Bowl got nothing like its 1935 dusting. But farmers sneezed and grew red-eyed, Oklahoma City motorists needed headlights at midday, in some parts of Oklahoma visibility shrank to 100 feet...
...American chestnut tree used to flourish from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, from the Canadian frontier to North Carolina. It often reached a height of 100 feet, a ripe old age of 600 years. Today, where the once verdant chestnut forests stood, are scattered grey skeletons, a few scrubby little second growth trees. For Endothia parasitica, the chestnut fungus imported from Asia at the end of the last century, has systematically destroyed the American chestnut. Only a few stands are left in the Southern Appalachians and Endothia has started on them...
...York's Westchester County, the verdant group of 18 towns and four cities lying north of Manhattan, was last week revealed to be ''the fastest-growing portion of the entire Anglican communion throughout the world." In Manhattan- popularly supposed to be ungodly although its churchgoers, mostly devout Roman Catholics, devout Jews, are many-the Protestant Episcopal Church has lost 8,584 members since 1910. But in Westchester, reported a committee of Episcopal churchmen and laymen last week, Episcopal churchgoers have increased by 12,223 in the same period, or nearly...