Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With open land a problem in Cambridge, the University has always eyed the MTA land, which is conveniently located to the Yard and other Houses. The main obstacle in the past has been the fact that the MTA could not afford to part with any of its existing facilities...
There were in Eastbourne, however, some who were rude enough to question the orderly process of life and death in anonymous letters to Scotland Yard...
Because freight produces nearly 90% of operating revenue, the railroads are concentrating on ways to improve freight handling. The Pennsylvania, for example, is in the midst of a $34 million program to turn its 74-year-old Conway yard near Pittsburgh into the nation's most modern electronic freight system, handling 9,000 cars daily from remote-control panels. Electronic brains made by International Business Machines will sort, classify, route and guide all freight cars from an inclined switching hump to their proper tracks automatically; electronic signals will operate all switches; electronic scales will record each...
...Cambridge delinquency are the familiar ones. To a certain extent they are environmental. One can work out a pretty close correlation between the degree of dilapidation of an area and the degree of its delinquency. The fairly substantial middle class sections adjoining and to the west of Harvard Yard are relatively free of juvenile problems. But it is in the poorer sections of the city, to the east of Harvard, that the real difficulty lies...
Earlier in the evening, Wharton had won the Eddie Farrell 500-yard run, beating Basil Ince of Tufts and Mac Hassler of Williams. After spurting into the lead after the first lap and a half, Wharton literally coasted in to win by 10 yards in the slow, for him, time of 59.1 seconds...