Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coldhearted reader, in fact, may find The Silmarillion at least half fustian and more than a yard long. There are moments when Tolkien sounds as if he were writing a parody of Edgar Rice Burroughs in the style of the Book of Revelations...
...spectacular results from a lot of relatively unspectacular runs, and typify the way the Tigers almost secretly dominated the game. But run it over in your mind a couple of times and you'll realize that rarely did Isom get stopped for anything less than five or six yards. There was no Tony Dorsett 70 yard touchdown scamper. It was just hard, steady work...
...despair, sports fan... this story has a happy ending. For on that day, when life seemed at its lowest ebb for this humble, unassuming young man, he got the call on a 40-yard field goal...
...late 1700s Holden Chapel, one of the smallest buildings in the Yard, housed all of the facilities of the Harvard Medical School. With the school's faculty numbering only three, not too many people were concerned about who was in charge...
...toughest foe the Crimson has faced thus far this year, Brown first converted these tactics into a goal. They scored at the 11th minute of the first half when Geoff Elliot headed a 40-yard kick from midfield to Ted Framalopolous who pushed the ball past Harvard goalie Dave Balton as he tried vainly to swim over to the left of the goal in time to stop the ball...