Word: yards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Naval School which became the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. Next day Assistant Secretary Roosevelt motored over to Annapolis to help celebrate its goth anniversary of that event. From far & wide gathered thousands of old Navy men who with their families strolled the quiet, trim, tree-lined yard in a sunny haze of good fellowship and sentiment. The Founder's grandson, Wilder Dwight Bancroft, famed Cornell chemist, made a speech. From a fleet of submarine chasers and launches a "White"' force of midshipmen swept up the Severn to rout "Blue" defenders in a re-enactment...
Prosecutor Woodcock opened his case before the jury of eleven white businessmen and a Negro dentist by charging that Defendant Shushan had exacted personal tribute of 2? per cubic yard from the contractors who dredged the fill for his airport and seawalls. When the quiet, incisive prosecutor twice referred to these payments as "graft," Counsel Wilkinson leaped up, demanded a mistrial. He was overruled. On the stand a string of dredging company officials supported and elaborated the Government's charge, pieced together a devious tale of threats and intimidation, of large cash sums passed quietly to Shushan...
...game to determine the Midwest's candidate for best team in the U. S. Minnesota got a touchdown after a 74-yd. run on the first kickoff, bottled up Nebraska's Lloyd Cardwell for three periods, staved off two last-quarter charges inside the 10-yard line, caused Coach Bible excessive pain by winning...
...yard run by Edward D. Fullerton '37 put the ball on the five yard line, and from there big William W. Waters '37 plunged over for the score, and added the point in similar fashion. Bill Waters' driving plunges added another tally in the second half...
...frequented by students singly or in pairs. At the rush hours about eleven, twelve, and one o'clock Harvard Hall literally bulges with scores of students flowing at a maddeningly leisurely rate along the hall on the second stairway, and spilling out of the lone doorway into the Yard...