Word: yardings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cotton textile industry two years ago noted with alarm that Japanese shipments of cotton textiles had grown from 1,115,000 square yards in 1933 to 155,000,000 in 1937. With a U. S. trade pact or a discriminating tariff impossible to arrange, Claudius Temple Murchison, president of the Cotton-Textile Institute, packed off to Japan with a delegation of businessmen. Somewhat to his own surprise he negotiated a private pact limiting imports from Japan to 255,000,000 yards for 1937 and 1938 (TIME, March 8, 1937). Last week, declaring the pact a great success, Dr. Murchison signed...
...These "Heavyweight Overcoats" are made from 35-ounce-per-yard cloth. Stroock & Co. has made a lightweight (20-oz.) vicuña cloth since...
Copeland, Kittredge, Lake and now Lowest. They are names that every schoolboy knows, men who were only yesterday seen in the Yard, men with little green bags and little eccentricities of dress and speech, men whom undergraduates knew as men, but to the class that enters in the fall, and for many years to come, they will just be "authorities" with which to pad a bibliography. Their books can be brought in Boston or Bombay; they themselves are no longer the unique offering of Harvard...
...philosophic detachment, Vag stumbles on the reason why. This is enforced, simulated gaiety. It is not the youthful exuberance which rightfully follows a Yale game. It is not the gay abandon of a May evening's hilarity in the Yard or Square. That exuberance and abandon are always present in the blood. But this gaiety is one scientifically, commercially, injected into the veins with a syringe. There is no trace of the real Christmas at this party. Vag and girl leave abruptly...
Lookerby, of the Red and Black, loped through the 1000 yard run in 2:25:6, to boat out Fred Bradley '42 who clocked 2:32:2. In the three quarter mile run, Langdon Burwell '41 trailed Gallant of Northeastern. The winning time was 3:20:8; second was 3:20:4. Drevitch of Northeastern won the 880 with 2:07:0 running time, and Mead ran second with...