Word: yards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taste and public decency. There is obviously heavy drinking in connection with the Pudding running and there is reason to believe that this public display of drinking and its unfortunate results are sanctioned and even encouraged by those managing the initiations. Women students* are regularly seen in the Yard [main campus] and in the class room buildings. It is an affront to them and a slur upon Harvard that they are forced to run a gauntlet of drunken glances, bawdy ballads and obscene recitations in order to attend their lectures. . . . A passerby on Quincy street was embarrassed by public aspersion...
...jute, burlap, hemp, sugar bags. President of the market is Rutger Bleeker, importer. To the Exchange Merchant Bleeker brings a knowledge of Eastern trade gained in 30 years of dealing in cocoa, jute, coffee, spices. In London the day the Exchange opened, he heard that 1,000,000 yards of burlap had changed hands during the first session at a price of about 6.10 cents per yard. Last year one Gladys Meryl Yule, 24, inherited a sum supposed to be about $100,000,000. She was forthwith publicized as "England's richest heiress." The $100,000,000 represented figurative...
...Immature cats will be barred . . . Angoras and other 'fuzzy' felines will be barred. Only run-of-the-yard cats will be eligible. It is a well-known fact that housebred cats are not as antagonistic to water as backyard cats. . . . Fifteen minutes will be allowed for the washing...
...watched Harvard battle the Indians on even terms during the first half, succumb to the wizardry of Masters running in the third period and then wilt miserably under the final onslaughts of the Hanover forces. In the first quarter Marsters' work brought the ball from his team's 37-yard stripe, where he received a punt, to the 4-yard line, whence Sutton went over for the score. The Crimson reversed the order of things in the second period. B. Ticknor, after catching a Green dropkick, advanced to Harvard's 40-yard line; Potter hurled a long forward...
There are all sorts of days in the Vagabond's life. In fact, years spent knocking about the four corners of the globe and Harvard Yard have conditioned him to all kinds of climes and dispositions. So much so, that he has come to realize that moods after all are merely the reflection of a late breakfast or some other external influence...