Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buildings were going up in the Yard, and the village of Cambridge had begun its change into a modern industrial city. Eliot's reforms in the College curriculum had for the first time in Harvard's history allowed the students elective courses, instead of the entirely prescribed program of former years...
Students in Eliot and Kirkland dropped their books and left their early suppers late Sunday afternoon to watch seven fire engines stifle smoke and stench pouring through the yard between the two Houses from refuse cans which no one claimed to recognize...
...look now but Harvard may have a sprinter. Anyway, that's the way it appeared in the K. of C. meet at the Garden Saturday night when stocky John Spivak fought his way into the final of the 50-yard dash against a whole flock of name runners...
...mile relay test against Holy Cross and Brown, converted sprinter Harvey Thayer proved he could go a full quarter mile when he opened up a five yard lead on the first leg. Al Ruby and Dave Hamblett held this bulge and Jim Wheeler was able to coast home in the clear when Brown's anchor man, Royce Crimmius, run into him and fell down on the curve leading into the backstretch of the final...
...other Polish Jews who had been routed to Canada by George from a D.P. camp in Germany. Charged with illegally entering Canada, all seven were jailed. The arrests brought the first news of a passport racket that has been in full swing for nearly a year, has kept Scotland Yard in a dither for weeks...