Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within one hour after midnight one night last week, every bus, streetcar and subway train on Philadelphia's 1,500 miles of transit system had been rolled to garage, barn or yard and stopped. Local 234 of the C.I.O. Transport Workers Union was on strike. Next morning Philadelphians got to work as best they could, through four inches of snow. The Reading and Pennsylvania Railroads ran extra trains; hundreds of private car pools went into operation; big companies used their truck fleets to pick up employees; and thousands of people simply walked...
Every event was crucial Saturday, but Fox was without a doubt the here of the evening, as he won the 50 yard freestyle, came in second to Jim Smyly in the 100, and brought the screaming audience to its feet in the last seconds of the meet...
After Army opened the session by breaking its own record to win the 300 yard medley relay in 3:01.9, Bob Berko easily outswam Cadet distance champion Jack Craigle in the 220 yard freestyle...
...wasn't even speaking to himself after the varsity swimmer's heart yarding 41 to 34 loss to Army Saturday after before the largest crowd of the last in the Indoor Athletic Building. As anchor man in the 400 yard freestyle, Fox churned out the fastest 100 yards in his life, 52.0 seconds, only to such two tenths of a second behind Fary's great Jim Smyly. By winning of event, Smyly untied the meet for second, and clinched second place in the Eastern Intercollegiate League for the badets, Yale has already drubbed Army...
Shep Brown will compete in the 50 yard, 400-yard relay, and 100-yard freestyle events, with Mort Hull entered in the 50, and Bob Berke in the 100. These three men and Bill MacVicar make up the starting quartet in the freestyle relay...