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Word: yards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jaako Mikkola's men will have some strong competition to face Saturday afternoon. Boston College is sending a strong mile relay team anchored by Dick Gill. Torbert MacDonald and Sparks Sorlein of the Crimson will be strong put in the 100 yard dash to beat Larry Scanlon of Holy Cross and Ken Clapp of Brown. Zeimetz of Boston College will be a threat in the 100 and also the broad jump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Season Previews Will Be Made in Relays at Stadium | 4/27/1938 | See Source »

Every postbox in the House and the Yard dormitories is the property of the Federal Government and comes under its protection. By the Postal Laws and Regulations, "anyone who wilfully places anything other than mail matter therein for the purpose of avoiding mail charges is liable to a fine of $300 for each such offense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Young Communists May Be Fined $300 For Every Folder | 4/27/1938 | See Source »

...team. Saturday was a perfect day for a game. "Dick" Lewis led the team onto the field and soon the game began. After the kick-off it was nip and tuck for a while, but we soon were under way and carried the ball from our own forty-yard line for a touchdown. After we had scored once, the game was ours despite the cries of "Now for dear old Yale." We scored again in the second half, and the game ended with the ball on Yale's one-yard line...

Author: By Percy LANGDON Wendell, | Title: NO MEMBER OF '13 EVER DEFEATED BY YALE IN FOOTBALL | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...goals from the field and were able again by a perfectly executed play to carry the ball over the goal line? Again how in the last quarter Yale tried the much-heralded Minnesota shift and were able to carry the ball to our ten-yard line? And how in the last few minutes, as Yale was going to try a goal from the field, they became confused and were unable to get it off before time was called? And then the glorious times that followed--but these are too numerous to write about...

Author: By Percy LANGDON Wendell, | Title: NO MEMBER OF '13 EVER DEFEATED BY YALE IN FOOTBALL | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...Harvard Yard a reporter for the Hearst Boston American found few undergraduates who would sign a petition protesting the Hicks appointment. The Harvard Crimson enthusiastically applauded it: "Harvard has determined to give substance to its oft-mentioned shadow of liberalism. The hiring of Hicks is perhaps the most positive academic step that the university has taken forward this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Red Fellow | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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