Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seemed that the yard cops not only guarded the polling places but stuffed the boxes with one extra vote when it came their turn to declare either for the inside union or none...
Also included are employees in the engineering division, excluding operators, chief and assistant engineers; university press men, excluding officials; the H. A. A. maintenance workers; and University Yard Cops...
...there you don't find any of Cambridge with its everpresent carbon monoxide from cars, with the soot from factories close-by, with all the dirt in the streets and yard cops and pan-handlers, with slums lying close to luxurious red-brick houses, with parking spaces and no-parking places, with rearing trucks at night and clattering milk cans inevitable in the morning--all these things don't exist in that wonderful country where men are men and won't borrow from the government, where the country is green and the roads bad, where girls giggle in the streets...
...Joseph's coat, and a pair of dirty sncakers, he whittled lazily, contentedly, at a splinter of pine he'd found among the odds and ends at the end of the pier. Whittling, dangling his legs, he fitted and blended into the picture of the sky and the marine yard and the dark blue water...
Awed by the formidable proportions of his victim, the 20 year-old burglary hastily departed. Ziegler reported the incident to the ubiquitous Yard...