Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yard dash--Won by Spivak, (H); second, Thayer, (H); third, Dunleavy, (H). Time...
Golfer Bing Crosby was elected to buy champagne at the Cypress Point clubhouse on Monterey Peninsula, Calif. On the 16th hole-222 yards, with a 200-yard carry-over across an inlet of the Pacific-he shot a hole-in-one. "We were shooting into the sun," he explained to the press afterward. "So I just stood up and smacked one blind...
Aside from the vengeful motivation which seems far-fetched, "The Upturned Glass" looks less like a nocturnal fraternity initiation than most Scotland Yard goose-chases. Mason does a credible job as a doctor who is frustrated by his lack of control over mortality, and who plans his revenge as a gesture of independence. Mason the murderer, with a body on his hands, contrasts effectively with a disenchanted country pill-roller who is guiltless, but parttles of the hundreds he has "killed' in his practice. Further contrast comes when Mason scampers behind a railing to hide his crime from a gardener...
...part of a combined initiation of candidates and celebration at the demise of the notorious Woop ring, and took the form of a pet show, band concert, parade and snowball fight on the steps of Widener. This last feature was unrehearsed and uncondensed by Chief of Yard Police Alvin Randall, who methodically began to collect Bursar's cards as his contribution...
...show was heralded by mimeographed programs distributed through the Yard late in the morning, proclaiming 8--count 'em--8 animal contestants, and listing their dubious pedigrees. Among the entries was Lucky Pierre--Out of Breath by Dint of Toil...