Word: yards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the committee, selected from a group of 30 Freshmen, recommended by the proctors in the Yard, are: Vinton A. Dearing, Rodman Gilder, Jr., Langdon B. Gilkey, Barton Kelly, Christian M. Lauritzen 2nd, John I. Mahler, Douglas Mercer, James M. E. Mixter, Arthur W. Page, Jr., J. Warren Palm, Peter E. Pratt, Walter T. Ridder, Walter D. Riddle, Jr., and Frank S. Streeter...
...bark furiously. Looking out, Baker saw an automobile coming slowly down the road from town, thought it might be the battery messenger. Suddenly he heard a shot. He discussed it with his wife for three or four minutes, then started for Denhardt's car. Half way across his yard, he heard a second shot, much less loud than the first. Continuing, he found General Denhardt standing beside his car. The General asked for a flashlight, explaining that Mrs. Taylor had gone back up the road toward the filling station to look for a glove. As Farmer Baker was returning...
Inhibited by the need for keeping professional secrets from criminals, officers of the law usually write books that have all the bad features of detective stories and none of their ingenuity. By no means so pompous in his professional recollections as Sir Basil Thomson, onetime chief of Scotland Yard (The Story of Scotland Yard), Melvin Horace Purvis, onetime head of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, nevertheless falls into the literary ambush that has trapped so many of his predecessors, composing an account that contains two parts of philosophizing on crime to every one part of concrete...
...satisfied with time in its accepted guise, Charles R. Apted '06, chief of the Yard Police, has hunted down $15 worth of time-tolling monstrosity, a machine (hardly a watch) that not only chimes furiously on the hour, but signifies the day of the week and the date thereof...
Harvard's historian, Samuel E. Morison '08, professor of History, will give the annual address to Freshmen tonight on the history and traditions of the Yard...