Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Imagine that you have the choice of any seat in the stadium of the Yale game and, lacking the smarts to pick one next to President Bok on the 50-yard line, you decide to consider the view of the Veritas in the center of the field from every possible angle and height in half an hour or less. That is what is known as a tour, and as any oarsperson knows, a tour has 37 stadia. (There are 37 sections.) Calling them stadia (rather than stadiums) makes doing them sound refined-but even stadia produce sweat in considerable quantities...
Although the competition was not wave-shattering, the young team demonstrated its ability by turning in strong performances. Freshman Jane Fayer splashed to three first place finishes, in the 50,100, and 500 yard freestyle events...
...giddy excesses and malformed ironies of the movie business come through strongest: the unweaned egos of the people who make movies, the pushcart buccaneering of the studio heads who subsidize them. Monroe Stahr (Robert De Niro) belongs to both worlds. If movies are dreams for him, they are yard goods for his studio colleagues. Stahr insists on making a big-budget quality movie that may never turn a profit. He does it over the protests of the corporate lawyer, Fleishacker (Ray Milland), and Studio Chief Pat Brady (Robert Mitchum), who has described his production chief as a "goddam Vine Street...
Agency officials hoped that they would find the refrigerators when they conducted a room search through undergraduate dormitories. But after searching "most of the River Houses and about half of the Yard (dormitories)," Clarence Martin '77-3, manager of the refrigerator agency, said last week employees had found only 49 units...
...four roommates. Last year, Pennypacker residents complained vehemently about the facilities to the Freshman Dean's Office, Building and Grounds and anyone else who would listen. Some repairs were made, but only major surgery could bring the building up to par with some of the wood-panelled, ivy-covered Yard dorms...