Word: back-yard
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Nothing danced by her own back-yard, America has employed these postwar years in annihilating Europe, in opinion at least. The wealth which brings prestige and the prestige which brings prestige and the prestige which breeds pride have undeniably fallen into American hands. If the pride be sufficient to rationalize crudity to culture, then it may be said that American supremacy is complete, colonialism over, and provincialism truly begun...
...competiion recently instituted by the Society of Little Gardens of Philadelphia, in which Prentiss French, who graduated in June from the School of Landscape Architecture, won the first prize of $150. The subject of the competition was the design of a garden treatment for the typical suburban back-yard...
...problem of the second competition was a suitable treatment for an inexpensive back-yard garden, 40 feet wide by 75 feet deep. The drawings required were a plan for the garden and a planting design...
...complaint. But when the college which such a team represents upholds such conduct, and the college press has the audacity, not only to praise in vainglorious terms the conduct of its players, but also to speak of "defeating Harvard and Princeton at the same time in Harvard's own back-yard," thereby insinuating that the referee worked against Yale in favor of Harvard, when, as every body knows, it was for Princeton's advantage to have Yale win, it seems that insult has been added to injury. Not content, however, to let matters rest here, the Yale News felt itself...
...meat, an omelet, hot biscuits innumerable, a mound of griddle-cakes, and the usual "fixins," he called for four toothpicks, and was about to leave the table; but the polite head-waiter begged him to remain because they had got a yoke of oxen barbecuing for him in the back-yard. Skiapous lost fourteen pounds on that trip...