Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dionne quintuplets last week moved into their winter quarters, a snug little private hospital which Ontario businessmen built for them 100 yd. from the bustling farmhouse where they were born four months ago (TIME, June 11 et seq.). Though it was raining pitchforks Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe would brook no delay. Fortnight ago all five had attacks of intestinal toxemia. Last week all had slight colds, caught apparently from their five older brothers and sisters. There was whooping cough, too, in the neighborhood. And their sturdy mother, who has had nothing to do with their nursing or care, seemed again...
...site of a graveyard near Tientsin where his Army-Officer Father was stationed. He beat an unemployed carpenter in the final of the British Amateur at Prestwick last spring (TIME, June 4). Last week in Brookline Golfer Little had, as usual, been driving the ball 250 to 260 yd. Among other able opponents, he had beaten young Willie Turnesa, who had eliminated the defending champion, George Terry Dunlap...
...More enthusiastic than adept, Lawrence Dana, when he passed the mile-long firing line of the American Trapshooting Association at Vandalia, Ohio during tournament week in 1930, could barely restrain himself from getting off his train and entering the Grand target championship (fired at 16 yd. with no handicap...
...professional Chicago Bears nor a team of last year's All-Star Collegians, selected by a Chicago Tribune poll and coached by Purdue's Kizer. Northwestern's Hanley and Fordham's Crowley: a night football game which ended 0-to-0, after the Bears had been outrushed 136 yd. to 62 before a capacity crowd (80,000) in Chicago's Soldier Field...
...immigrant descendant of an English divine. In the 1870's many a rich old lady in coach and four clattered over the cobblestones of 14th Street to alight at Hearn's for a camel's hair shawl at $10,000 or laces at $1,000 a yd. For 105 years the store was managed by the Hearn family whose youngest executive, Donald Hearn Cowl, kept a yacht as late as 1931 and raced every Saturday with Junius Morgan. But in 1932 Hearn's, crippled by Depression, long eclipsed in fashion by younger stores, was turned over to a board...