Word: yards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over from Brooklyn Navy Yard came U. S. Rear Admiral Harris Laning to make a little speech. Up from Washington came British Captain F. C. Bradley, R. N. to make another. These seadogs found no technical flaw in Soldier Clegg's work, for Soldier Clegg had with great accuracy noted on the spot every shell splash, turret and barbette...
...locomotives. New York Central, headed for receivership in the depth of Depression, was about to cut its interest charges by refunding old bonds. And Pennsylvania announced that it would start immediately on electrification of 85 mi. of four-track main line west to Harrisburg, Pa. Various yard, branch and freight lines will be electrified at the same time, bringing the cost of the whole project to about $158,000,000 and completing the program launched in 1928 by the late William Wallace Atterbury...
...Madison Square Garden. Representing Harvard in the triangular one mile relay with Yale and Princeton will be Frank Leary, Tudor Richards, Al Hanion, and Bill O'Connor. Captain Bill Schmidt, who placed third last week in the K. of C. Meet of Boston, will enter the 60 yard invitation high hurdles and seek to better his last excellent performance...
...days in church with an equal constituency can the year gathering an equal number. "He finds, however, that the House plan has greatly reduced the upperclassmen in attendance and in all probability accounts for the fact that the congregation is mainly made up of Freshmen living in the Yard and of Graduate students on their way from North of the Yard...
Considered the outstanding scholastic back stroke in the country, Harold Stanhope, who last year won the 100-yard back stroke and 220-yard free style for LaSalle School, will swim for Warwick High School this year. Gardner High, the favorite to win the Harvard Athletic Association Placque in the High School meet, has been runner-up for the last two years...