Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the top floor of Matthews to the ground floor of Wigglesworth, Yardlings have reported to Coach Skip Stabley this year, and he has moulded one of the best first-year outfits over to wear the Crimson. To date they have won 12 out of the 13 contests they have played, and barring any ineligibilities occasioned by scholastic difficulties, they will enter every remaining game on their schedule as decided favorites...
...grateful that TIME has seen fit to publicize the cruelty inflicted on animals in making the picture Jesse James [TIME, Feb. 6]. So many pictures are being shown in which horses are thrown violently to the ground; animals are made to fight furious battles, which they would never do in the wilds, and other cruel acts are depicted that it is time the motion picture industry was made to understand that such acts are contrary to public opinion...
Shortly before Christmas, Wal sent several hundred unemployed out into London's Oxford Circus to dramatize their appeals for employment on public works and an increase in winter relief allowances. Suddenly tossing themselves on the ground like so many Holy Rollers, they tangled traffic into an unholy mess. Two days later he sent some of his roughest members into one of London's smoothest spots, the Ritz. He almost got a coffined umbrella labeled HE DID NOT GET WINTER RELIEF into No. 10 Downing Street...
...five years (1925-30) the Schlessers slaughtered some 300,000 head of outlaws, salted their meat in 51 -gallon barrels, shipped most of it to Holland and Scandinavia. Hooves, ears, tails were sold for glue and oil; ground bones and scraps for chickenfeed ; hides for baseballs and shoes ; blood for fertilizer; casings for German sausage. Then the day of the wild horse began to wane, and the Schlessers turned to packing beef...
...Freshmen skating in the Yard last night set a new high in undergraduate ingenuity. The skaters, Munroe A. Winter '42 and Whitall N. Perry '42, both of Hollis Hall, taking advantage of the layer of ice left on the ground by the freak weather of Wednesday, glided between Gray's and Weld for over an hour and a half...