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Word: yarding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit, Mrs. Thomas J. Middleton, Negro, hired a steam shovel to dig holes in her back yard. A dream had revealed to her that gold was buried there. Neighbors were annoyed by the dust, smoke and noise. Said Mrs. Middleton: "They needn't be so uppity. I catch them digging in my back yard themselves at night since I had my visions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...until two hours after the hurdles and standards had been stowed away, however, that the outcome of the meet was decided as officials clustered around a movie projector in Payne Whitney Gym and watched pictures of the finish of the 440-yard relay...

Author: By Spencer Klaw, | Title: Big Red Cindermen Nose Out Crimson in Heptagonal | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...Crimson's stock went down another couple of points when Charley Smith, white hope in the 100-yard dash, pulled up lame in his trial heat and was scratched in the final...

Author: By Spencer Klaw, | Title: Big Red Cindermen Nose Out Crimson in Heptagonal | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...mile relay Harvard was doomed by Lightbody's tiring 880. Running in the number three spot, he handed the baton and a one-yard lead to Anchorman Torby Macdonald, who was unable to withstand the speed of Cornell's Johnny Nevius and took second...

Author: By Spencer Klaw, | Title: Big Red Cindermen Nose Out Crimson in Heptagonal | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...second of three Yard concerts to be given this spring, the Glee Club, under the direction of George Phillips '39, president, will sing tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock on the steps of Widener Library. Open to the public, the concert will be called off in case of rain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club Sings in Second Outdoor Concert Tomorrow | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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