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Word: yardful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years and up to 25%. The compromise bill provides four years, up to 20%. ¶ The Senate overrode (69-20) Ike's veto of a minor bill raising basic wages at the Kittery (Me.)-Portsmouth (N.H.) Naval Shipyard to a $2.50-an-hour par with the Boston Naval Yard. The action marked the first time in six years that either congressional branch overrode an Eisenhower veto. Later, the House vote to override (202-180) was less than the necessary two-thirds, keeping intact the President's record of never having a vetoed bill passed into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rush Hour | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

This week, almost unnoticed against the splashy baptism of the nuclear-powered submarine named after a Greek god, the Navy prepared to launch a slim, 3,990-ton destroyer at the Ingalls Shipbuilding Yard in Pascagoula, Miss. The destroyer's name: Parsons, after the man who armed the first atom bomb dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Five Fateful Hours | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

When last Schneider's Silver Concert Band performed in the Yard, it was Commencement Week and a misty nostagia dampened the valetudinarian playing that marks Herr Schneider's style...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Pandemonium' Rages At Schneider Concert | 8/14/1958 | See Source »

...Yard Punch, 3-5 p.m.; International Seminar: Forum in Littauer Auditorium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Week's Events | 8/7/1958 | See Source »

Narrowly parted from the Yard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wistfully, the Weed | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

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