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Word: yardings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Secretary Edison testified before a Congressional committee last year, he observed that the back yard of every industrial laboratory was piled high with discarded specimens. Said he of airships: "I don't think our scrapheap is big enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hopeful Experiment | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...condensers will continue to work out their plans to meet any emergency that may arise to curtail the Digest's diet-plans which include printing original articles along with advice to consumers on advertised products. Already the Digest is growing much of its roughage in its own back yard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Indigestion | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...yard end' sweep from his own 20-yard stripe, but he fumbled, and so no dice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football--- | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...last two periods saw the Crimson register twice each and the Southernors once each. The third Crimson marker was a result of a fairly sustained drive from midfield, with Harding finally going over, and the fourth was likewise a 50-yard marching affair, with Harding again the big offensive gun and the final scorer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football--- | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...Burnett, Macdonald's understudy who played most of the second half when Torb retired with his biffed eye, rang up Harlow's fifth touchdown on a very fine 50-yard run. By this time the team's blocking had taken a definite brace. After Green had intercepted an enemy pass and Virginia got a 15-yard roughness penalty for flagrant piling on top of Gardella, Harvard pushed over its final marks, with Smith, who relieved Gardella, going over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football--- | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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