Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desert town of Touggourt, French officials and a sprinkling of carefully chosen Algerians stood in a railroad freight yard ringed by three fences of barbed wire and guarded by soldiers. "This achievement will astonish the world," said Max Lejeune, France's Minister of the Sahara. Engineers threw open the valves of a 6-in. "baby" pipeline, technicians stepped forward to fill souvenir bottles. "It's here! It's here!" shouted jubilant officials. The first oil from the Sahara was on its way to France...
Landau took third in the hurdles event, Anderson was fifth in the Bishop Cheverus 1000-yard run, and the varsity two-mile relay team put up a strong fight before losing out to Yale. The remainder of the Crimson entrants won little glory, but performed respectably and doubtless profited from the experience of competing against some of the world's finest athletes...
Anderson's best running to date has been done over the 600-yard distance. He won this event easily in the Tufts meet last Wednesday night and set a new Harvard Cage record in the process. However, the K. of C. meet directors requested that he run in the longer race Saturday night, and he has agreed...
Both Anderson and his coach, Bill McCurdy, are confident that he will give a good account of himself, despite the high calibre of the competition and his own unfamiliarity with the 1000-yard distance. "It won't surprise if he goes out and wins that race," McCurdy said yesterday...
...Gordon will represent the Crimson in a special 500-yard race, in which the entries are restricted to present college undergraduates. Gordon will get stiffer competition from Yale's Bob Skerritt, Basil Ince of Tufts (a scorer in last spring's N.C.A.A. championship), and Rudy Smith of Bates...