Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cold reply: "There is no general power of search on the high seas in peacetime." *Cable companies have had similar trouble with fishing trawlers for years. In cable legend, a Chinese fisherman is supposed to have once mistaken a heavy, metal-sheathed cable for gold; triumphantly, he hauled in yard after yard as his little junk slowly sank to the bottom...
...varsity's Eric Johnson took the dive by 0.43 points over Dennis Berk, for the only real Crimson win. In the 200-yard backstroke, the varsity's Gary Pildner swam his fastest time of the year, 2:17.8, keeping neck and neck with both Jim Dolbey and Ed Alexander until the last lap, when the two Elis pulled ahead...
Sergeant John J. Grainger of the Cambridge Police Department, when asked about the incident, said: "From talking to these boys I've found that it's common knowledge among high-school students that the Harvard boys in the Yard are pretty careless about leaving rooms unlocked. The temptation puts these high school kids right in the middle," he added...
Matthew J. Toohy, Captain of the University Police, also said that the Freshmen should be "much more careful about locking their doors" and called for better all-round cooperation on the part of students living in the Yard in reporting to their proctors any strangers seen in the dorms soliciting funds, selling magazines, or acting suspiciously...
Dean Monro will break slightly with Harvard tradition in the near future when he moves into his "auxiliary quarters" in Adams House. For many years the Dean of the College has had a room in the Yard where he could go to avoid the continual press of phone calls, meetings and so forth, but Monro decided this year that he would have his quarters in a House, where he would be closer to the majority of the student body...