Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard took on responsibility for educating Radcliffe women. This action, however, was not based on any real commitment to serving the needs of women. Until 1943, Radcliffe has hired and paid for its own professors who taught women students in Radcliffe Yard. In 1943, financially compelled by depleted Harvard enrollment caused by World War II, Harvard agreed to educate women with Harvard money on the Harvard campus. In exchange, Radcliffe contributed its tuition revenue to Harvard...
...Minerva flies only at dusk," said Josh Korzenik '79, quoting Hegel but describing the Lowell House owl, formerly the Yard owl, Bio Labs owl, and Busch-Resinger...
...midday, Wheat Farmer Clyde Eveleigh stared out his front window near Ulysses, Kans. His yard light, which turns on automatically when the sky darkens, glowed dimly through clouds of gritty dust. "I'm guessing that we got wiped out today," he reported, "but I'm not about to go out into the fields to find out-the air is so black I might get lost." In eastern Colorado, too, gusts of wind up to 90 m.p.h. scooped up the drought-dry topsoil, hurling some five tons of the precious dirt off each acre of land during...
...cemeteries: "When the needs of the living are in danger, let the souls of the dead rest in peace a little dryer." Other writers suggested bans on selling and filling water beds, using Jacuzzi baths and sprinkling golfing greens and tennis courts. One advocated cutting back on water-guzzling yard plants like camellias and azaleas; cacti and other desert flora could be planted instead...
...year-old Jack stood 5 ft. 10 in., weighed 165 pounds, and when he eagled the 18th hole at Scioto for a 69, it was clear that a golfing prodigy had burst on the scene. At age 20 he reached the island green on the 50-yard seventeenth at Cherry Hills with a drive and a seven-iron...