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Word: yards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thursday dragged itself out interminably. Alf Landon stayed home, now glued to the long-distance telephone, now out in the back yard playing with the two youngest children, Nancy Jo, 3, and Jack, 2, for the cameramen. Grandmother Cobb took the children to her house for the night, came back to listen in her son-in-law's study while the platform was being read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: This Happy Evening | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

...increase in wages would seem to indicate that the work of these 18th century Yard Police was proportionately increased from 1733 to 1736. John P. Brown

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 6/18/1936 | See Source »

Despite prevalent rumors that he has received an opportunity to enter the movies in a detective role, Colonel Charles R. Apted '06, superintendent of the Yard police, yesterday again categorically denied any intention of leaving his present kingdom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLONEL APTED NOT TO WORK FOR MGM NOR ANYONE ELSE | 6/17/1936 | See Source »

Immediately following this service, the Commencement Procession will form in the Yard and march to the exercises in the Sever Quadrangle. Led by the President and Fellows of the College, the Procession will include many State and Harvard officials, as well as the graduating class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM OPENS TOMORROW AT 9:00 | 6/17/1936 | See Source »

...through the day Haile Selas sie had been demanding that the Foreign Office accord him "official permission" to lay the wreath which meanwhile drooped and withered in his hallway. Captain An thony Eden's subordinates had kept insisting all day that His Majesty should merely apply to Scotland Yard for whatever protection he might think he needed in laying a wreath on the Cenotaph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Selassie & Fiuggi | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

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