Word: playground
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...later years of his life were devoted to public service. He was for seven years a member of the Board of Selectmen of Brookline, and for 16 years, chairman of the Brookline Playground Commission. When Calvin Coolidge was governor of the state and was looking for a responsible man to reorganize the Civil Service, he selected Mr. Dana from a large number of possible incumbents for the position of chairman of the Commission...
Another left turn is made here and the winding road along the shore of Annsville Creek is followed to the Bear Mountain Bridge Highway. The completion of this fine highway together with the Bear Mountain Bridge, makes the vast outdoor playground of Bear Mountain Park, and the west shore of the Hudson River, more easily accessible to motorists...
...With the general obscuring of the colleges' original purpose and function, it has unfortunately become a kind of glorified playground. It has become the paradise of the young...
Near Deauville, modern playground, eleven 11th Century sarcophagi were found containing small women, giant...
...startling specimen was a transparent bell-shaped jellyfish, about a foot in diameter, which propels itself by opening and closing like an umbrella. This creature's interior is a dining room, playground and protectorate for as many as 300 little silvery fish. Unharmed by the host's poisonous tenacles and living on its killings, the parasite's swim in and out of its mouth at will...