Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boyhood home had tremendous elms," recalls John Hansel, 45, a New Jersey manufacturer of watercoolers. "Those trees were my symbols of the past." In fact, Hansel bought his present house in Riverside, Conn., mainly because four venerable elms shaded the front yard. Unfortunately, two of the trees soon died, victims of the Dutch elm disease that now kills about 1,000,000 trees a year in the U.S. Distraught, Hansel launched a personal crusade to save the threatened species. In 1965, unimpressed by the botanists who believed that the American elm was doomed, Hansel set up Elms Unlimited, which...
...protest began at 8 a.m. yesterday morning when about 100 black students marched through the Yard to the construction site for Gund Hall, which will be the location of the new offices of the School of Design...
Thirty minutes later, the students left through the back entrance of the club, many covering their faces with scarfs and coats, and rushed across the Yard to University Hall...
...yurt has returned to Radcliffe Yard...
...yurt a circular wood hut modeled after a Mongol hut made of skins. The first yurt, built last Fall in the Radcliffe Yard, was displaced by the new Education School library. The present yurt is safely located near the corner of Garden St. and Appian Way and differs from the last yurt in having a sod-covered roof...