Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does remain that prompt publicity and recommendations on thefts whose seriousness was apparent so long ago as February might conceivably have forestalled Parkhurst's streak. Meanwhile, noting down of serial numbers is even now no mere locking of the barn, since no cessation of sneak thievery is contemplated by the Yard cops. Possibly, in view of this fact, authorities enamoured of Harvard's exercise of autonomous control of her affairs, and frightened of the glare headline, will not attempt to win their battle while losing the students' campaign...
Absent from the collegiate scene for five years, the Hasty Pudding Club's famed musical comedies will be resumed this spring. With a Harvard premiere set for sometime in March, the troupe will hit the boards in an eight city barn-storming tour during Easter vacation...
This morning he stood eyeing the chute which led from cages in the barn. He had four young, 200-lb. lion cubs up on pedestals around the practice cage. He was putting them into the act for the first time and he was waiting to see how the rest of the cats would act. His two striped sinuous tigers, Prince and Roger, stopped and snarled before they leaped to their shelf. But the five big old lions looked all right as they came...
...disappeared behind a grey overcast, and a great stillness fell over the eastern Colorado plains. After that a freezing wind rose, banged barn doors and snatched at the smoke from lonely ranch houses. It grew dark, and salt-like snow began hissing across leagues of sere buffalo grass. Then, for 48 hours, a blizzard-the worst in 33 years-moaned down out of Wyoming with nothing to stop it but fence posts and cottonwood trees...
...patently too late to repair the damage that has been done--the horse is long gone from the barn. But it is not too late to insure that such a situation never again arises at Harvard. Whether it is salutary or not, football at Harvard, as throughout the nation, stands on the threshold of its greatest era. But if football at Harvard is to be big time, then the H.A.A. must sweep off the cobwebs and emerge from the nineteenth century...