Word: wasteland
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Honored by San Franciscans on an officially proclaimed John McLaren Day was the city's grizzled 90-year-old Park Superintendent, a Scottish gardener who in 1887 started his transformation of 1,000 acres of sandy wasteland into world-famed Golden Gate Park...
...unhappy memory since its association with the Philadelphia Fair of 1926, has been studiously avoided in the publicity. To give New York's Fair elbow room, the Fair Corporation and the City of New York chose a site about 18 minutes northeast of Manhattan on a tidal wasteland outside Flushing, L. I. It happens to be a place where General Washington once complained of the mosquitoes...
North over hard, dry hummocks of wasteland to Point Barrow. Alaska one night last week trotted a lone Eskimo. In three hours Clair Oakpeha covered 15 miles. Finally he stopped, exhausted, at the door of the U. S. Signal Corps station. Out stepped Sergeant Stanley Morgan...
...last week flew 24 British Royal Air Force planes, fanwise, in quest of something. Across the rain-soaked sands beneath them crawled British armored cars, likewise looking. Finally one of the pilots found what they all sought. Round & round he circled over a black smudge on the dun-colored wasteland. Dipping earthward he saw a tangled mass of charred metal, a few corpses, letters scattered like snow upon the sands...
...extract from Thackeray's "Henry Esmond" called "The Duke of Marlborough" is to be given next by Charles W. Yungblut, Jr. '34. After Yungblut's address, John Cromwell '36 will present "The Burial of the Dead" and "A Game of Chess" from "Wasteland" by Thomas S. Eliot '10, William E. Smith '35 will deliver Lincoln's "Second Inaugural Address...