Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every Fall when the Harvard football team takes over Dillon Field House a new group of football enthusiasts takes over the Yard. From this new group comes the new football family: players, managers, and fans. Many newcomers find that lack of size or experience or some other handicap keeps them off the team. These are the men who usually enter the Freshman managerial competition...
...average TIME-reading woman has charge accounts at two department stores (one also has a charge account at a lumber yard, another at a farm equipment dealer's). Her food bill last year was $27 a week (although 11% say it was over $40). She owns 4.6 cookbooks and tried out at least one new recipe last month, which "everybody" liked. Her principal hobbies are her home and husband, sewing-dressmaking-knitting, gardening, sports, music, reading. She received a gift of flowers or candy on three or more occasions last year-and, in case anyone is interested...
...cool of night had descended on Ebbets Field; it was only 94° in the dusk. In a box on the 50-yard line sat old Branch Rickey, in his shirtsleeves, peering disconsolately at the half-empty house (16,411). His baseball Brooklyn Dodgers were packing in the fans; this was Rickey's first game as owner of a pro football team -also known as the Brooklyn Dodgers. All afternoon, ticket cancellations had poured in. Even three of Rickey's own guests begged off. Snorted Branch disgustedly: "Who ever heard of canceling a football game because...
Yankee Dash. On the first play after the kickoff in the third quarter, Hunchy plunged off tackle, sprinted 60 yards before a Yankee nailed him. On the 27-yard line, the Yankees held. The Dodgers tried another field goal, but the Yankees blocked it. From then on, Rickey got the kind of speed he liked to see-but it was all done by the rival Yankees, in particular by Spec Sanders, Negro Buddy Young, and a Negro rookie named Tom Casey. Casey raced 94 yards to a touchdown, coolly pointing out to his blockers, a threatening Dodger safety man halfway...
...hour," she says, "to think up that title"). She does a little of everything, including shopping over long-distance telephone. Sample: "Jack, this is Elsie. Elsie-who else calls you from Dallas? Get me some colors, I've got to have colors. Need gabardine, about 10,000 yards. Haven't a yard of brown left. Okay? Now don't forget...