Word: yarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...younger generation piled up firsts in every event except the 200-yard freestyle relay and the 100-yard freestyle races while sweeping first and second place slots in four events...
...meet indications that the Crimson mermen were week in the sprints was only mildly evident as Fox triumphed in the 50-yard freestyle and Milt Buzby's third sandwiched Scott, of the Alumni. Buzby and Art Sicular, of the winners, followed Powers to the finish in the 100-yard freestyle...
Otherwise youth was served. Jerry German and Norris finished one-two in the 220-yard freestyle; John Drohan and Winslow Briggs carried off first and second places in the diving contest; Tom Woods and Bob Brainard led the field in the 100-yard backstroke; and Chuck Hoelzor and Ulen came home first and second in the 100-yard breaststroke...
Christmas dinner in the Union and New Year's Eve in the Yard is the prospect still facing most of the University's 664 foreign students. Only 30 families have volunteered so far to entertain them over the coming vacation, Peter Ways '49 of the Student Council's International Activities Committee announced last night...
...officer guides took me first through some dim, barnlike barracks (the stoves gave hardly enough heat to warm a small coffeepot). Several children who had been playing in the yard eyed us closely. They too were prisoners (the Communists use children for petty spying and to plant explosives, the guide said). Most of the other prisoners, standing in military formations, were singing. Phrase by phrase, the grey-uniformed men followed their tenor leaders in one song called I Love My Gun, another, Victory Song. They sang in excellent unison, breath steaming in the cold...