Word: yapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University's work laid special emphasis on the causes for a sharp decline in the population of Yap. Four major typhoons occurred while the study was going on, but this did not prevent the research crew from compiling a thorough analysis of the native culture with its age-grading custom and strict caste system...
From South Africa to New Mexico the University owns property in many obscure spots or else has "permanent" research centers located in distant communities. The term "Harvard" has a local meaning to natives of Stratford-on-Avon, the Island of Yap in the Pacific, and the Pyramid region of Egypt...
...recent years Yap, a small island southwest of Guam, has entered the Harvard sphere. Members of the Social Relations and Anthropology Departments are now completing a report based on their two-year study of the island...
...fact, Barney's boys only made one mistake. In the top half of the fourth Barlick was forced to stroll over to the Dodger dugout to ask Gene Hermanski if he would kindly shut his yap. Mr. Hermanski attributed his blasphemous outburst to a fit of boyish enthusiasm and respectfully complied...
...University's only other similar expedition is being conducted on Yap Island in the Pacific to aid the Navy in ruling the natives...