Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy Yard...
...Noble" is ship slang for a galley funnel. "Joe Gish," at Annapolis as at Princeton and other universities throughout the land, is equivalent to the civilian "John Doe." And Reader Noble's U.S.S. Seattle can scarcely be rolling, for it has not been out of the Brooklyn navy yard for ten years...
...Lightbody, blond and handsome, who is working his way through college by mounting War posters for the Widener Library and guiding visitors around the Yard, is currently considered Harvard's most outstanding quarter-miler, is on the board of The Guardian (new undergraduate magazine), is a member of the Dramatic Club and is on the Dean's List (high-standing students). In spite of the fact that he broke his arm when he was five and broke his back when he was 14, hence has to do special exercises before running, experts expect Jim Lightbody Jr. to equal...
Crimson Yardling tankmen submerged Brookline High Saturday afternoon, 54 to 12, as Frank Powers set a new Freshman 200-yard free-style record of 2:04.6. Eric Cutler '40 had the old mark...
Ample consolation for Stepp this year, though, was the unofficial time for Princeton's disqualified 300-yard medley relay team. 2:53.5 was the clocking, a world's record, invalid because Al Van de Weghe, Tiger backstroker, failed to touch the wall with his hand as he negotiated a somersault turn in the first leg. The Nassan mermen were rather bitter about the ruling, for Van de Weghe, is notorious for touching as much as two feet below the surface, a practice which makes it very difficult for the judge on turns to see what's going...