Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some of what they see they may not recognize. While the venerable red brick of the Yard remains familiar, some say new additions to the Harvard skyline prove more puzzling...
...Library or the Harvard Depository--storage facilities located miles off campus--for their overflow. And, although professors can recall a book from the warehouse within 24 hours, many faculty members complain that they have lost valuable aspects of their scholarship with the departure of whole library sections from The Yard...
...teachers want a raise of 10% this year, retroactive to July 1, 1988, and an 8% increase in each of the next two years. They also want to be relieved of school-yard duty and given a greater voice in running the schools. The district is offering a 21.5% increase over three years. Unless the walkout is resolved, it could postpone graduation for about 35,000 seniors and delay class promotions for most of Los Angeles' 594,000 public-school students. The teachers' cause got an apparent boost last week when Governor George Deukmejian announced that the state...
...security guard in the Yard reports objects being thrown from a window at Canaday Hall. Police respond, hearing that a person was nearly struck by one of the items. The culprit cannot be found. A student tells The Crimson that the objects were books belonging to an exam-weary Yardling...
Movies are show; plays are tell. Here's one difference. In Beth Henley's 1984 off-Broadway hit The Miss Firecracker Contest, a seamstress named Popeye Jackson explained that as a child she "used to make little outfits for the bullfrogs that lived out around our yard." In this expansive adaptation, Popeye (Alfre Woodard) displays one such frog, cunningly coutured in a nurse's gown with matching stethoscope. Ah, the glamorous realism of the cinema! It's cute...