Word: yarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frigate Constellation, the U.S. Navy's oldest ship, celebrated its 150th birthday. Tied up at a Boston Navy Yard dock next to the U.S.S. Constitution (which was saved from destruction in 1830 by Oliver Wendell Holmes's impassioned "Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!"), the Constellation was mastless, and badly in need of a "complete rebuilding." The Navy hoped that "patriotic societies" would come to her rescue...
...said that the Yard dormitories were packed to the limit and that if adding an extra man to a room becomes necessary, it will have to be done in the Houses where the situation isn't quite so tight...
Norris, a member of the Varsity swimming team for the past two years, defeated three-time winner Steve Wosniak, former Michigan all-American John McCarthy, and entries from Yale and Princeton. Trueblee Habeler, the Tiger competitor, won the 440 yard free style in the Harvard-Princeton meet last winter...
Symbolic of the respect paid by the nation, the state, and the city, Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14, Governor Robert F. Bradford '23, and Temporary Mayor John B. Hynes arrived at the Yard in advance of the funeral cortege which was making its way from Brookline...
...moved slowly through the suburb where Dr. Cutler had lived during his many years of practice, and arrived at the entrance to the Yard at 3:45 o'clock. For 15 minutes until the commencement of the ceremony the Chapel bells mournfully tolled...