Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ruled the school with firmness and vision from 1923-43. Last week, still tall, erect and stately at 81, Ada Comstock Notestein (she resisted the suit of Yale History Professor Wallace Notestein for her full 20 years at Radcliffe, married him only after she retired) journeyed to Radcliffe Yard, accepted congratulations as a dormitory was dedicated...
...their first few months while still protected by passive immunity from inherited antibodies. Now the better-heeled families are dutifully getting Salk shots early and often. The people at the bottom of the economic ladder have learned enough about health protection to get their babies up out of the yard filth, but not enough to have their youngsters vaccinated. As a result, paralytic polio (2,499) struck hardest at children from low-income groups...
...pocket-sized quarterback began to call his own number at this point, and he got results fast. Squirming through the Yale line on "sneaks," and rolling out around the ends, Ravenel personally gained 52 of the 73 yards covered by the Crimson in its first touchdown drive. And it was quite fitting that he himself registered that score (at the very moment the first half ended) on a five-yard roll-out to his right...
Yale scored in every quarter, taking a quick 8-0 lead after a Crimson fumble. Willy Welch took the ball five yards through the line for Yale's first score and Chris Vachris continued the rout with an 11-yard spurt around the Crimson's left end in the second quarter...
...been observed since Harvard's Centennial), Curley heralded his arrival with a massed band, an escort of fully-armed lancers, the National Guard, trumpet sounds, bugle calls, the beating of drums, the shooting of guns, and the cheers of a mixed collection of Boston Irish such as Harvard Yard had never imagined. He reminded the assembly that the last President to address a Harvard anniversary celebration, Grover Cleveland, was a Democrat, that President Roosevelt, sitting behind him, was a Democrat, and that he, Curley, was likewise a Democrat. Who, he queried, were they...