Word: yarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near Ottawa, something that looked like a white-hot stovepipe flashed wickedly over the heads of three men in a boat, they said. Other Canadians saw flying teacups. J. William Sheets of Seattle announced quietly: "They come through our yard all the time." E. E. Unger, meteorologist in charge of the U.S. Weather Bureau at Louisville, Ky., reported a strange orange light rolling across the southern night. Idaho's Lieutenant Governor Donald S. Whitehead saw a whole flock of broody bright objects sitting motionless in the midday sky. A woman in Texas saw a disk...
...Buenos Aires province. Her father, Juan Duarte, was a handsome and susceptible small landowner of nearby Chivilcoy. Her mother was a dark-eyed Basque named Juana Ibarguren, whose charms were sufficient to lure Juan from his wife. The couple set up housekeeping in a tumbledown house with an unkempt yard overrun by chickens. They had five children, of whom Eva was the last...
Although Stillman Infirmary has treated no cases of heat suffocation during the heat wave, activity around the Yard slowed practically to a walk yesterday afternoon when the full force of Old Sol hit residents. Observers in Widener Library and the Boylston Reading Room reported a distinct falling off of intellectual activity during the normally busy evening session...
...Salt Lake City, Negro track stars set two new world's records: Illinois' Herb McKenley ran the quarter-mile in :46.2, and Baldwin-Wallace's Harrison Dillard, the 220-yard low hurdles in :22.3. Each was two-tenths of a second better than the old record...
Household. When a woman drops a dishrag she knows someone dirty is coming; when two roosters fight in the yard, two young men will soon arrive. A child who eats candy in the privy is whipped for "feedin' the Devil an' starvin' God." Soap should be stirred by a member of the family, because "a strange hand skeers the soap." A menstruating woman can't pickle cucumbers and "a bad woman can't make good applesauce...