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Word: yardings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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While New York Police Commissioner Valentine sent a special detective to investigate the charge against Detective Broderick, and Navy Yard officials announced calmly that they knew they had Communists among their 9,300 workmen, but watched them carefully, main interest in the Communist Party centred on Comrade Malkin's denunciation of Comrade Charles Dirba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Dies | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...week. He built KFKA a new transmitter, which the now booming station has nearly paid for. In Hoover Park, around his auction arena, he has his own studio, the 300-foot transmitter tower outlined with red neon lights. In the park are cattle pens, a Buzz Hoover lumber yard, garages, stores, tourist cottages. On auction days, when the radio-beckoned crowds turn out in droves, Buzz wears a slick cowboy outfit and so do Claude and Esther. His roustabouts wear natty, filling-station-style uniforms with cowboy hats, clown around on bucking steers between sales. Buzz himself is no mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prairie Showman | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...yard end run by McNicol put the Freshmen ahead in the second period, and then Fisher added the extra point to make the score 13-6 for Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong Freshman Eleven Hands Andover Decisive 20-6 Defeat | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

John Shattuck, a substitute for the Crimson, did a fine bit of punting under pressure in the second period when the Yardlings were on their own 5-yard line. Morton Waldstein, the regular booster, was playing with an injured leg, so Shattuck came in to relieve him for one play and sent the ball apiraling down the field for over 60 yards. There the Freshman ends dropped the receiver in his tracks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong Freshman Eleven Hands Andover Decisive 20-6 Defeat | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Another substitute, Ray Guild, paved the way for the last period tally by three successive runs which totalled 45 yards. Waldstein scored on a one-yard plunge, and Fisher again converted. Guild, a state record-holder in the 100-yard dash, who had made very little impression heretofore outside of the scrimmages, displayed a promising mixture of speed and deception in Saturday's game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong Freshman Eleven Hands Andover Decisive 20-6 Defeat | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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