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Word: playground (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cape Cod, always a pleasure playground in the summer, has many outstanding companies, including the Provincetown Players, appearing at the Playhouse on the Wharf. The Players open on July 3 with A Moon for the Misbegotten, and continue through the season with The Climate of Eden (July 14-19), The Family Reunion, Separate Tables (July 28-Aug. 2), The Emperor Jones (Aug. 4-9), The Summer's Treason (Aug. 11-16), and The Millionairess...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: Out of Cambridge, Much Ado | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...extracurricular program Scarsdale is typical of most high schools. The General Organization or student council is the central extracurricular activity and provides a coordinating body for organizations and a playground for the machinations of school politicos. The limits of its power have usually remained, wisely untested, although a few years ago, when the General Organization voted to establish new regulations for parking, which limited teachers as well as pupils, the teachers complied, albeit with mixed reactions. A couple of dozen clubs and activities carry on regularly, including a yearbook, literary magazine, and biweekly paper, and enthusiastic students often belong...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Suburbia's Scarsdale High School Offers Top Academic Challenge | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

...weren't likely to get many customers from either place." With $5,000,000 in his pocket and no place to spend it, with only a short-term lease on Ebbets Field and no place else to go, O'Malley began an unabashed scramble for a new playground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Walter in Wonderland | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...such advisers, Kishi has chipped away at the Anglo-Saxon political concepts of Japan's 1946 "MacArthur Constitution." presses for at least a partial return to the hierarchical, authoritarian traditions native to Japan. By order of the Kishi government, Japanese schoolchildren will soon find themselves doing playground drill in the militaristic prewar fashion, and will be subjected to regular doses of "moral education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Rising Sun | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

...relaxing its ties with London, the new nation (see color pages) seems certain to become increasingly neighborly with the U.S., trading more and more goods and culture. Soon, cheap jet-airliner travel should turn the islands into a favorite winter and spring playground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEST INDIES: First Election | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

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