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Word: yardful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North American railroads -the giant. 17,000-mile Canadian Pacific Railway Co. finally wrested an admission from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen that a fireman has no useful function on an oil-fired diesel locomotive. To establish the principle, the C.P.R. proposed to remove firemen from yard and freight diesels. Arguing passionately that the fireman was vital as a safety lookout, the union last week tried to shut down the C.P.R. with a strike, watched in dismay as their fellow rail workers coolly crossed picket lines and kept the trains running on time. After three days, the firemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: End of the Fireman | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...Lark"), and before long Charlie beds down with Mariette in a field of buttercups. But it is the strawberry-sweet juice and joy of life with Pop and Ma Larkin that truly seduces Charlie. One day it is Pop piloting a real, if secondhand, Rolls-Royce into the yard and grandly announcing, "Ourn." Other times, it is Ma wolfing fish and chips and baying "Turn up the contrast!" toward the ever-playing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: British Funhouse | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...Harvard Glee Club will give the last of its Yard Concerts tonight on the steps of Widener at 7 p.m. Assisted by the Harvard Freshman Glee Club, the H.G.C. will give the program originally scheduled for the Yard Concert which was rained out two weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Last Yard Concert | 5/20/1958 | See Source »

...meanwhile, the Administration might meditate upon the fact that while students are walking the mile from the Business School lot to the Yard, the streets of Cambridge remain uncleaned despite their looming emptiness. Perhaps the real solution to the parking problem is to put a broomstick on every undergraduate bumper and allow parking everywhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Parking Plots | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...Tuesday night, after listening to the Yard Concert, the Russians will visit the CRIMSON. They will live in M.I.T. dormitories during their stay in Cambridge...

Author: By Robert D. Gamble, | Title: Six Student Editors From USSR Arrive Here for Whirlwind Visit | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

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