Word: yards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that day. He had spent part of the morning discussing with a gardener the construction of a new hothouse and later, satisfied that the new house would be the equal of the others in which it is his pleasure to grow pears and grapes, he strolled past the chicken yard toward the park. The chickens, of course, were more his wife's affair than his, but they reflected credit on him - an entirely new species of chickens, called the "red and white," which Poland has adopted as its "national breed'' as a way of paying...
Last week, business went on as usual in various hundred yard factories roofed with sky, capitalistic gloating was minimized because the big teams all had easy games...
...peoples who inexplicably turned out when the University of Pennsylvania opened its season, were rewarded by seeing Franklin and Marshall College make a one-yard forward pass for the first touchdown it has scored on Pennsylvania since 1915. Penn 14, Franklin and Marshall...
Huguley showed up well in the role of interferer, as did Potter. In fact, the interference by both forwards and backs was superior to any seen in the Stadium at such an early stage. The way for Gilligan's fifty-yard romp to the initial score was opened by good blocking and clearing...
Andover's score came as the direct result of two forward passes. Having been stopped dead on the one yard line in the opening period, the schoolboys early in the second canto, worked back to the 35-yard stripe. Here two passes, Brown to Kimball and Keesling to Broaca coupled with a seven yard run by the latter put the pigskin across the goal. Harvard worked some pretty laterals in the fourth period but could not get beyond the 22-yard stripe...