Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman meet, a competition between the Yard dormitories, is the first of its kind at Harvard in recent years. Fifteen events will be featured, including an 80-yd. dash, 160 yd. dash, 330-yard run, 660-yard run, three-quarters of a mile, a mile and a half run, 80-yard hurdles, and 120-yard lows. Field events will include the high jump, broad jump, 12-pound shot, 30-pound weight. pole vault, javelin, and discus. A three-man dash relay team is also planned for each dormitory. Blue books are located in the Union, Dudley Hall...
...diaper them in a room specially set aside, and "build their bodies" under free instruction facilities); Jacob Riis Park (which has the world's largest one-unit parking space -14,000 cars); Orchard Beach on Pelham Bay (where 100,000 bathers can cavort on 6,600,000 cu. yd. of ocean sand of which 2,500,000 was hauled from Rockaway); Bethpage Park (where the near-rich can play polo and all can play golf on four 18-hole courses for $1 and $2 greens fees); seven other public golf courses; 161 City tennis courts; 250 City playgrounds...
...best performances in football history. In last fortnight's game against Yale, Halfback Luckman completed ten out of 17 passes (most of them on the run) for a total gain of 146 yards, scored a touchdown and kicked three extra points. He not only throws a 50-yd. pass like a catcher pegging to second base, but feints his opponents out of position like a boxer...
...final minutes of the third quarter, Luckman began to bomb the Army's defense. In the last quarter, with Columbia trailing 13-to-18, Luckman threw three passes and three times succeeded in speeding the ball toward a touchdown in a 96-yd. drive. Although Fullback Gerry Seidel carried the ball over the goal line, the rousing cheers that came from 25,000 exhausted throats were mostly for Sid Luckman. For his earlier point-after-touchdown had won the game for Columbia. Hero Luckman, however, calmly stepped up to the ball, kicked another point-after-touchdown for good measure...
...yd. water hole of the Plantation Golf Course at Boise, Idaho's tall, pink-faced Senator James Pinckney Pope, who was defeated last month for renomination, scored a hole-in-one, chortled: "I guess my luck is changed...