Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cornelius Vanderbilt got around to the opening of the Metropolitan Opera (see Music) even though it meant her first public appearance in a wheelchair. When 30 photographers swooped down on her and let go with flashbulbs, she brandished her cane and cried: "I ought to take this to you." Carleton Smith, director of the National Arts Foundation, who escorted Mrs. Vanderbilt to the opening, said she had decided to attend only after he told her that Queen Mary, who recently gave him an audience in England, had remarked sadly that "so few were left to uphold tradition...
...Every metropolitan newspaper in both New York and Boston played the Bingham statement big, with the accent on Harvard giving up "big-time" football. It would be difficult to think up a better way to keep capable football players out of the Yard. The mere statement that Harvard will "give up the big-time" is enough to send most athletic-minded scholars to Princeton and Yale...
Boston's location is so close to the sea that it has not been previously regarded as an area favorable for prolonged skiing, but the site chosen is the highest and coldest peak in the area and traditionally has more snowfall than other sections of metropolitan Boston...
Benjamin W. Fink, chief engineer of the Parks Division of the Metropolitan District Commission and supervisor of the project, reported that "near Boston, the day-to-night temperature drop is sufficient to change poor skiing to good skiing and with the shortness of the season in mind we thought the investment highly worth making...
...skiing area is surrounded by the park land of the Blue Hill Reservation, a wood and hilly area stretching irregularly for ten miles across south metropolitan Boston, and provisions may be made to increase the parking facilities...