Word: ell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their tiny pieces of private property, and now this small fraction of Russia's agricultural land supports 13% more cows and pigs than on the collective farms. This scandalous situation became increasingly more scandalous: peasants tried to stretch their legal inch of private property into an illegal ell. Some local throwbacks actually hired comrades to work their required stint on the collective fields while they devoted all their time to their own acres...
...annual triangular Harvard Yale Princeton debate, one half of the Yard- ling forensic squad meets a Tiger yearling trio in the Upper Common Room of the Union tonight at 7:45. Three other members of the team travel to New Haven and will argue against an Ell Freshman squad tonight...
...Ell team is heavily studded with Sophomore and Junior performers, as are the Crimson. Chuck Spalding, Rolfe Kingsley, Bill Thorn, Mac Stephens, Captain Gordon Campbell, Bob Freedman, Tom Rutledge, and George Kelly are the outstanding Blue singles men. It is a well-balanced outfit, but lacks some of the individual brilliance of the Crimson...
Leading the Crimson attack for the second game this season, Dave Colwell, former Ell football punter, booted a conversion and a penalty goal to the tune of five points. He was allowed his penalty kick half way through the final period after a Princeton had fouled by attempting to block...
...Twentieth Century-Fox). In telling this story. Robert Louis Stevenson indulged in a few frank errors. But the only far-reaching one was his foreword, saying ''how little I am touched by the desire of accuracy." For from this offered inch Hollywood was bound to make an ell. The past cinema season has been pretty rough on Stevenson-adding a blonde Kozatsky dancer to the Soviet's Treasure Island (TIME, Jan. 31), flaunting an unimagined Hollywood ingenue in a Technicolored sarong in Ebb Tide (TIME, Nov. 29)-but in Kidnapped, R. L. S. takes the count. Producer...