Word: yards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undergraduates were served beer, made in the brewery which stood in the Yard near the present site of Hollis Hall. But only privileged bodies like the Board of Overseers rated the luxury of wine...
...onetime mistress has been murdered, circumstantial evidence, much like that on which he based his case against the innocent tourist, is definitely against Sir Alan. The extortion plot supplies a motive. It takes the best efforts of Lady Dearden, her astute confidant (Roland Young) and the head of Scotland Yard (Lewis Stone) to extricate him, put the blame where it belongs. For a melodrama containing two violent deaths, The Unguarded Hour is chiefly remarkable for an inappropriate placidity which Franchot Tone's yawnings, head scratchings and frowns to denote the weight of great affairs do little to dispel. Best...
...announced the discovery, between Levels Eleven and Twelve, of a temple-fortress built 3,000 years before the earliest mention of such structures in the Old Testament, and which they called "unique in prehistory." The building was circular and its walls, of sun-dried brick, were more than a yard thick. Twelve rooms were laid out around the circle, and across it were three rectangular rooms in series. The diggers believed that the largest was a cult-room and that a small anteroom was a sanctum. Mysterious bell-shaped objects made of polished marble may have served either as weights...
...friends in America." which M. Herriot noted in his introduction, caused Mme Cuttoli's 20th Century tapestries to be brought to the U. S. for their first public showing. No more than their 15th Century predecessors are they intended for the walls of the proletariat. Each square yard requires six to eight months' work; no design will be duplicated more than three times; prices will be fixed accordingly...
...meet includes all the usual events of spring track, the 100 yard dash, and 110 and 220 yard hurdles, 440, 880 and mile runs, shot put, discuss, javelin and hammer, high jump, broad jump and pole vault...