Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voiced man at the refreshment booth just inside the grandstand. "Kids, kids, kids!'' he would cry. "Big kids, little kids, bring your dimes and nickels! Get your ice cream here!" He pushed the hot dogs ("See how long they are!-30? to the foot, 90? to the yard!"), kept up a steady stream of jingles ("Local bread, pound of meat,/And all the mustard you can eat"), in every way seemed to be just one more concessionaire. But to carnival folk, Witold Krassowski, 35, is now known as "The Professor." A sociologist who teaches and studies...
Harvard employees this week are wishing good luck to one of their number who has been selected to compete at Gloucester in a $50,000 grand prize fishing tournament. Robert Bredin, Yard policeman, defeated other employees in a local contest which served to choose the representative to the final match...
Questionnaires covering like in the Yard dormitories and the academic and extra-curricular aspects of the Summer School are being distributed by the administration. Their purpose is to discover students' likes and dislikes with an eye toward improving future summer sessions...
...candidate himself pounded away during the week at his favorite argument: no "moderate" should head the Democratic ticket; only a thoroughgoing, yard-wide New Dealer has a chance to beat Dwight Eisenhower. And only Harriman stands "for the principles of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, the only principles which will win in this campaign." (Retorted Stevenson, with an assenting nod from Eleanor Roosevelt: "I protest Mr. Harriman's claim that he has any exclusive rights to those principles...
...going, falter and come on again in the last 100 yds. to catch Mrs. E. E. Robbins' Midafternoon by a head. When it was over, even the losers had seen their money's worth-a close and true race that had the first three horses within a yard of a triple dead heat...