Word: yards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nine years ago, when koalas had almost vanished from the Australian bush, a penniless 22-year-old Brisbane naturalist named Noel Burnet dedicated his life to saving the species from extinction. He started out with four koalas in his boardinghouse back yard, soon interested a philanthropist who rented him a 50-acre patch near Sydney for a shilling a year. He named it Koala Park, planted eucalyptus trees, built a koala hospital, developed a thriving colony which tourists came from far & wide to see. Naturalist Burnet did not grow rich on his tourist trade, had a perpetual struggle to keep...
...cold gray dawn one day last week a wandering Yard Cop stopped by the John Harvard statue in front of University Hall. Although the moon was shining brightly, it seemed to him that the Statue was bathed a trifle too much in a white, ethereal, other-wordly light...
McCllelland, Eli right half, was easily the star of the game. He scored twice at the climax of long marches. The other Yale touchdowns came as a result of a pass, and a 72 yard runback of an intercepted pass in the final period...
...Navy, although scoreless the first half outgained Harvard the entire game, and pushed over their first score in the third period when Watson, the Annapolis left half, closed a long drive down the field with an 18-yard dash around...
...Wednesday evening the Yard Questions Committee, under the direction of Laurence S. Levy '39, will hold the first open forum in its projected series of Wednesday night programs...