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Word: yard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Princeton, with its four 200-yd. freestyle finalists, seemed unbeatable in the distance relay, but Harvard's Bobby Hackett grabbed a five-yard lead on the opening leg and his teammates (Julian Mack, Jack Gauthier and Mike Coglin) staved off a late Princeton challenge to win by the slimmest of margins, 6:41.84 to 6:41.87. Both teams' performances qualified them for the NCAA meet March 22-24 in Cleveland. [Related story at right...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Aquamen Retain Slim Lead in Easterns | 3/3/1979 | See Source »

...added that the committee will encourage every assembly member to "canvass each of the 75 students the member represents," and will inform students of their constitutional right to recall their assembly delegates by a petition signed by a majority of the residents in a House or section of the Yard...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Assembly Will Form Committee To Research Students' Views | 3/2/1979 | See Source »

...great day, the Superdome was crammed with superpatriots. Barry Goldwater was on the 50-yard line with a flag in each hand. The Soviets' water boy put down his bucket and sang The Internationale. Rozelle retaliated massively by fielding the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to sing The Star-Spangled Banner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Armageddon in the Superdome | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...delegates met yesterday in the Yard in committees patterned after actual U.N. committees and in sessions of the General Assembly and Security Council, Sam N. Levin '80, Secretary-General, said yesterday...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Model U.N. | 2/24/1979 | See Source »

...first consulting detective is pitted against Jack the Ripper, slayer of London harlots. An intriguing idea, but hardly unique. In A Study in Terror, Ellery Queen postulated that the fiend of 1888 was a deranged duke. Holmes' official biographer, William Baring-Gould, identified Jack as a Scotland Yard inspector. In the recent The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, Mystery. Writer Michael Dibdin put forth the heretical notion that the Ripper and the detective were aspects of the same character. Now Clark offers his own 7% solution: part authentic atmosphere and 93% balderdash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: 93% Solution | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

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