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Word: yards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Should Mr. Shields be so unfortunate as to fracture his hip, lie in a hospital eight weeks, flat on his back in a Bradford frame, leg being stretched by ropes and pulleys and weights, said leg being held immobile by a yard-long sandbag on either side, an alert physician and a bevy of nurses standing by like eagle-eyed engineers, he will learn that one may be kept from "tossing about in the throes of sleep" until he may hatch out a whole dozen eggs "scrambling" nary a one, and no "marvel" at all. "This astonishing muscular control" will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...taken the first heat in 23.8, beating Garrett, and Julian Armstrong, of Dartmouth, had won the second heat, also in 23.8, with Harvard's Jim Curwen third. Curwen placed fifth in the final behind Garrett, Russ Duncan, of Yale, Armstrong, and Perryman, a formidable field for any 50-yard race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cutler Breaks Record in 440 as Greenhood Takes Diving Crown | 3/18/1939 | See Source »

Callahan, Columbia leader, triumphed in the 300-yard individual medley in 3:34.2, a new National Intercollegiate mark. The old record of 3:39.6 was set by former Yale leader Macionis in 1936. The Lion captain beat Al Van de Weghe, Princeton star by two yards in the final, after each had won his heat in the preliminaries. Ed Kent, Columbia; Frank Ferguson, Colgate; Huldane Wilson, Yale and Barnett Phillips, Yale finished in that order behind the leaders. This is the first year that the 300 individual medley has been contested in the League championships, and Callahan's record should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cutler Breaks Record in 440 as Greenhood Takes Diving Crown | 3/18/1939 | See Source »

Today, those students walk the Yard as ghosts, mere shadows of their former selves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 3/16/1939 | See Source »

Vanderbilt College of Yale proved too strong for the Eliot House mermen Saturday afternoon when they won a 34-28 decision. A one-two victory in the 100-yard free-style decided the meet despite Eliot's brilliant win in the final relay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Swimmers Lose To Yale | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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