Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this, Stagg remains an active practitioner of the cult of physical fitness. He goes through a routine of bending and stretching exercises on awakening. He does pushaways, knee bends and chinning on an old fig tree in his yard, jogs around a small course that he has laid out from fig to apricot to pear-tree stump (about 100 yards at a time). He cuts his lawn with a hand mower, rakes his own leaves. His blood pressure is 135 over 90. The systolic reading is low for any man over 65; the diastolic is near the upper limit...
...there is no evidence that it had the slightest real effect on him. His letters refer to various affairs, and the writings of the last year especially are filled with allusions to a particular unnamed girl. On one occasion he wrote: "Last night I was caught in the Harvard Yard with a girl... doing the worst I could. The yard-cop was fat and portentious. `Mister,' says he, breathing heavily through his mouth, `this has got to stop...
...lone B.C. tally came in the second quarter, when the B.C. quarterback connected on a 23-yard touchdown pass...
After a 50 yard march to the B.C. goal line, halfback Steve Burke broke the tie in the third quarter with a line plunge through the massive Boston line to put the Crimson in the lead, 12 to 6. With the Yardling pass defense tightened, B.C. kept the ball on the ground but were unable to retain possession. Crimson half-back John Shipman then slipped around end for a 15 yard touchdown...
However, the rehabilitation of dormitories in the Yard will continue, von Stade emphasized. "As we get more of Wigglesworth back," he said, "we can expedite the rehabilitation providing, of course the Corporation approves the necessary expenditures." It may be possible, he said, "to close one of the older dorms, maybe one half of Matthews," so that renovation work may be done...