Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gang's woes, the criminal underworld was less than patient with such a crime-especially when Scotland Yard began systematically raiding their haunts in a search for the paintings. Two days after the theft, a tip from the underworld brought police to an apartment where two Rembrandts and a Rubens were found under a bed. Another phone call-police theorize that this one was from the distressed gang itself-led them to a park, where they found the other paintings wrapped in newspaper under a holly bush...
Radcliffe Gym -- in the 'Cliffe Yard -- is used for basketball and volleyball by Cliffie amazons. Here they'll hold the Phil 140 exam...
...five year waiting rule was created by the General Court in April, 1865. At that time one had to be physically present in the Yard on Commencement Day to vote for overseers and the law was passed out for fear that the newly graduated seniors and their graduate school counterparts would swamp the elections unless restrained...
...American tailoring into a "mid-Atlantic cut." This is somewhat arrogantly described as "not quite what an Englishman would wear," but with more shape than the typical U.S. suit. Nor is shape the only compromise. Lacking central heating, Englishmen prefer fabrics weighing 15 ounces to 20 ounces per running yard; San Franciscans choose almost English weights, but otherwise, says Stanbury, "we can't sell anything over twelve ounces...
Freshman associate David H. Weinstein '67 threw a beer party last Tuesday in Leverett House. Eight freshmen showed up from all parts of the Yard to mix with upperclassmen, resident tutors, a couple of professors and Master Gill...