Word: yardings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Problem XX is more than a fame. Never before, not even when the Navy cavorted in Japan's back yard last year, has the U. S. so frankly marshaled its sea power to deal with specific foes (Germany, Italy) as they would line up in a specific situation. For the armed forces of the U. S. now have something to do besides wait for a war to be declared. To forestall that event, Commander-in-Chief Franklin Roosevelt has put ships and planes to use in world politics-the "power politics" that up to now has been played only...
...Police found on one suspect a copy of what Scotland Yard officials called the '"S-Plot" or secret instruction issued by the I. R. A. Main points: Sabotage Britain's industrial life, join Britain's civilian defense corps to "look respectable," gain access to wartime supply depots, raise hell...
Soon learning there was no spot cash up that alley, the young inventor turned to more practical pursuits. To earn money for his first pair of long pants, he invented a thief-proof auto lock which netted him $25. At 19 he was working in a railroad yard. Then he landed a job in the fund-raising office of George Everson, a San Franciscan with brains and friends...
...record breaking Exeter track team handed the Yardling squad a 58 to 37 defeat on Saturday in the Thompson cage. Squire, the star of the victorious team, broke the track record in both the 60-yard high hurdles and the 75-yard low hurdles...
...Freshmen skating in the Yard last night set a new high in undergraduate ingenuity. The skaters, Munroe A. Winter '42 and Whitall N. Perry '42, both of Hollis Hall, taking advantage of the layer of ice left on the ground by the freak weather of Wednesday, glided between Gray's and Weld for over an hour and a half...