Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bullet Bob" Gammons '39, comes out of a year's retirement with his torn leg muscle "as good as new," in an effort to dominate the fifty-yard dash field...
...morning of September 29, 1938, a Benld housewife, Mrs. Carl Crum, was working in her yard. Suddenly she was transfixed by a roar and a crash which led her to think that an airplane had fallen nearby. She peered in vain for smoke, wreckage, damage. Mr. McCain came home later to find that a celestial visitor had made a three-point landing on his property, about 50 feet from where Mrs. Crum was standing...
Powers led Gibbons by a yard for 14 laps, but then the diminutive Bruin pulled his way even, passing Powers and leading him for the next two lengths. The Crimson swimmer made a gallant bid as he went into the last turn, and came into the homestretch wide open cutting down his opponent's lead every second, but Gibbons stood him off until the finish, winning only by a touch...
...objective lesson in concentration was provided for study-worn students by a hunting dog yesterday afternoon in front of the steps of Widener Library. Sighting his prey in the form of a lonely squirrel sitting at the base of one of the Yard elms, the dog immediately froze into a perfect point and remained without moving a muscle for the better part of a half-hour...
LONDON--Police posted armed guards around the official residence of Prime Minister Noville Chamberlain and other government buildings tonight after Scotland Yard received an anoymous warning that there would be "more bombs tonight" in a series of outrages blamed on the Irish Republican Army...