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...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...
...bright light shining in a dark journalistic world made up of pink extras, tabloids, red headlines, and misleading leads. The Transcript, also, is the classic example among newspapers of the good old New England conservatism, the "safe" newspaper equally to be trusted when declaring that there is no summer playground that can hold a candle to New England or when leading the churchman afield...
...invited to spend his summer vacation in Idaho, President Coolidge let it be known that he thought Idaho too far west. This limits his field. He is not going to pitch a tent in the middle of an Iowa cornfield; nor is he likely to choose a Rocky Mountain playground, away from the angry farmers' area.* Current political strategy hints that the President will select the Black Hills of South Dakota or some convenient fishing spot in Wisconsin. To him will be called dirt farmers, farm organizers, midwestern Senators and Representatives. The President will tell them how anxious...