Word: lyon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winter had been mild: days bright with sunshine, nights when snow fell gently on the waiting land. Now the soil was dry and good, ready to come to life with the first warm breezes. In the rich black loam of Lyon County, farmers al ready were sowing oats, a full three weeks early...
...yard run-First, Buckingham, Dartmouth, 2:26.3; second, Kelty, Andover; third, R. Farrington, Harvard; fourth, A. Lyon, Harvard...
...Yardlings should duplicate the Varsity's feat with West Flint and Ted Withington in the hurdles, and Frank Coolidge in the dash. Archie Lyon, on the basis of his past times, should lead the pack in the 1,000-yard run. However, he has had a bad cold for the last week or so, and may not be in too good condition. Big Pete Garland should have little trouble in the shot put, while the broad jump and high jump are questionable...
...appeal for cooperation is being used rather than the force implicit in a rationing system. "Rationing would be difficult to enforce and it might entail considerable hardship for indiduals," said Lyon Southworth, assistant director of the Laboratories...
...figures; and asked a group of "informed people" to say what books "have most profoundly affected the thoughts and actions of mankind" since 1892. On the jury were Charles A. Beard, Henry Seidel Canby, John Dewey, Jerome Frank, Henry Hazlitt, John Kieran, Walter Lippmann, Somerset Maugham, Christopher Morley, William Lyon Phelps, Norman Thomas, Carl Van Doren. Their first ten choices, in order of recommendations received...