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Word: yardful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This morning at 9 a.m., under the new ticket sales system, juniors can start picking up their seats in spots working down from row C in section 34. The third year men are expected to consume an area extending about to the eight yard line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Morning Line Snags Cornell Ticket Selling | 9/29/1949 | See Source »

...ticket denounce as a hopeless hungler, especially after Saturday's loss to Stanford. Yet the grotesque situation remains. 9500 people want to go to New York to see the Crimson play Columbia. Only the wiseacre undergraduates, the guys who applied last week and got section 5, or the fifty yard line, will see the game from good locations...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 9/27/1949 | See Source »

David G. Gill '45, Robert B. Ross '46 3L, and Walter R. McCurdy '50 take over the head proctorships in the north and south Yard, and in the outer dormitories, respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Proctors Return To Ride Herd on Yard Inhabitants | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

This enigmatic tree-dweller (Whose sex could not be discerned by the more sage experts on Owlology) last year chose the Yard as his own domain. He (or she) sadly diminished the ranks of local pigeonry, thus causing furious partisanship among Yardlings. The advocates of campus cleanliness were decidedly pro-Owl, while the pig-con-squirrel lovers began to sport bows and arrows. The SPCA decreed that harming the Owl would upset the entire local balance of nature; budding politicos tried to capture it for Smoker campaigns; LIFE took its picture; but the Harvard Owl finally vanished as mysteriously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Owl | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...chest in a furious campaign to keep Boeing alive in Seattle. The Aeronautical Mechanics Union Local 751 (which struck Boeing last year) was in the midst of a $25,000 advertising campaign; one ad sarcastically suggested that the Grand Coulee Dam, the Bremerton Navy Yard and the Hanford Atomic Works be moved to the Midwest too. Cried one Seattle businessman: "He just tossed us a fish. He's trying to give us a sleeping pill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON: Stop, Thief! | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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