Word: yards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sermon must be most urgently desired by the senior's supporters who last year crowded about the entrance to Memorial Church long before 1937 filed through the doors. Under the impression that they would not all find seats these people pushed and pulled in a manner unbecoming in the Yard. When the doors were opened, still under the impression that they might not be seated advantageously, they rushed together so that at least one stumbled and came near to being trampled. Of the first comers some found seats in the balcony, while a few sat on the steps...
...middle of yesterday afternoon, when the Yard was beginning to recover from the violent interruptions of the morning that had broken its peace, a very small urchin stuck his face around the huge corner of the Widener Library steps. Cars were splashing away in the streets, but inside the Yard traffic consisted only of a few preoccupied pedestrians. The boy surveyed the situation for several minutes, then walked in an absolutely straight line toward a pile of snow in front of the Library. As he bent over to break the crust of ice, he didn't look much higher than...
...accumulated deposits of a village site, ranging in depth from a yard or so to 16 ft., contain ashes, shells, sea urchin spines, rotted wood and sod, bones of fish, birds and mammals (including whales), blown dust or silt, organic refuse of all sorts. Naturally the scientist cannot see this stuff without digging, because it is covered with vegetation. It is the vegetation itself which gives the clue. Rooted in such beds of unintentional fertilizer, the growth is darker, richer and taller than the average, and may show a luxuriant cover of plants which are rare elsewhere. On Kodiak Island...
...bevy of reporters who interview the lustrous Margo at a cocktail party arranged by her pressagent, Otto Hulett. While Margo tells them about her idyllic childhood among the jasmine bowers of the South, the curtains close. The orchestra plays Swanee River. The curtains then open on the squalid back yard of a New York tenement, showing the audience what Margo's childhood was really like. It was terrible. Her mother took in washing, and her younger brother (Charles Powers) was a budding thief...
...venereal disease crusade arrived last week at Harvard. In a cool, impersonal manner that contrasted with the boisterous brothel-photographing and madame-interviewing technique of University of Illinois' Daily Illini (TIME, Nov. 1), Harvard's oldest publication, the Harvard Advocate, presented an article on Sex by the Yard with the co-operation of the university's hygiene department. Salient facts...