Word: yards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...birthdays are holidays but Theodore Roosevelt's is Navy Day. Last week Franklin Roosevelt sent a wreath to be placed on Theodore Roosevelt's grave at Oyster Bay, L. I. Celebrations were held at Navy stations over the U. S. In the rain at Washington Navy Yard a party of Marines landed from Anacostia, staged a smoky mock battle with a party of sailors dressed in straw sombreros and checkered shirts to suggest Central American Insurrectos. At Philadelphia Navy Yard visitors clambered over Admiral Dewey's old, grey flagship, the Olympia. Preparedness messages were delivered on Boston...
...York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, son of the inventor, grasped the controls of a pneumatic riveting machine, shot a flaming bolt into a 70-ft. section of the keel of the North Carolina, first battleship the U. S. has built since the West Virginia was commissioned in 1923. North Carolina's proud Lieutenant Governor Wilkins P. Horton shot the second rivet and the Yard's new commandant, Rear Admiral Clark H. Woodward, dispatched the third. Before newsreel cameramen had picked up their equipment to depart, a battery of professional riveters...
Internationally known author H. G. Wells will be taken by special escorts through the Yard this morning, later feted at a luncheon given by the Signet Society. He will speak on Monday at 8:15 o'clock on "The Brain Organization of the Modern World" in Symphony Hall...
Well timed passes were responsible for most of Dartmouth's gains, while two netted touchdowns. In the first period Al Ley, right end, caught a 25 yard pass from left half-back, Hal Webster, to score the first six points. Jim Weaver, fast right half-back for Dartmouth scored the other two goals, the first when he intercepted a Harvard pass, ran 90 yards to score, and the other on a pass...
Yesterday's clash between Winthrop and Leverett was just about what was to be expected from these two strong defensive teams. The Rabbits had what little edge there was in the tilt-but they spoiled their chances by sloppy ball-handling. Each side came within two yards of making a score during the game, and at one point Leverett made a first down on the Puritan four-yard stripe. WINTHROP LEVERETT Baumgarten l.e. l.e. Seamans Cole l.t. l.t. Hausserman Gilliland l.g. l.g. Bangs Peters c. c. Landry Moore r.g. r.g. Day Butler r.t. r.t. Harkness Evans r.e. r.e. Hamill Stix...