Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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MATCH I.Ten glass balls thrown from Bogardus trap s 18 yard rise...
...ground floor room in college that could not be entered by even an inexpert thief. One way of preventing future theft is shown by the locality of this burglary. The back of Weld was undoubtedly chosen for operations on account of the entire lack of light at night. The yard needs better lighting ; the front of the buildings is not so exposed to burglars, as there are constant passers by, but the sides of the buildings that do not face on the yard or the streets need to be better lighted or better watched. Of course the best safeguard would...
...plank walks in the yard have been blocked up to prevent them from swaying...
...Cowie perhaps obtained a shade the best of a capital start, and led Ritchie by about three-quarters of a yard at the half-distance, Philips at this point a yard in the rear of the Moseley Harrier. A clipping spurt on the part of the last-named nearly brought him to Cowie's shoulder, the L. A. C. man. to our thinking, just breaking the worsted first by about six inches. The flat, however, was a dead heat. Philips finished third, a yard behind. It was subsequently arranged that Cowie and Ritchie should settle the question at Birmingham. Time...
...George went off with the lead, Snook rushing to the front before they had got half-way round the first lap. A couple of yards divided them as they ran into the straight, when George spurted and again got the lead, this being the order until the finish, something like three and four yards separating the pair. As they neared the straight for the last time, however, George had increased the lead to five yards, and, although Snook struggled gamely, and at one time managed to get within a yard or so of the leader, George immediately went away again...