Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ontario. Near Mile 115 it is sharply hemmed by the Agawa River on one side, an 800-ft. cliff on the other. Approaching this spot on his regular freight run one day last week, Fireman Graham McLeod saw a big grey timber wolf loping down the track about 500 yd. ahead. He knew what to do. As the train caught up, he crawled out on the cowcatcher, seized the wolf by its tail. Strong teeth slashed his fingers badly before he got his prize into the cab, but Fireman McLeod did not mind. He had upped his record for this...
...settled on the fat, flat farmlands of what is now Greene County, 70 mi. north of St. Louis. There one blistering August day 72 years ago the future Majority Leader of the House was born. A great hulking farmer's son, he went to Amherst, dashed 100 yd. in 10.2 sec., won the heavyweight boxing championship of the college, got his A.B. in 1883. After a law course in Chicago young Rainey began to practice at Carrollton, the town in which his mother's father was the first settler. He married a Nebraska girl named Ella McBride...
...complained bitterly because she was not allowed to enter more events. Sportswriters Grantland Rice, Paul Gallico, Westbrook Pegler et al. were sufficiently amazed by Babe Didrikson to investigate her abilities further. She played her nth round of golf for their benefit, amazed them afresh by averaging more than 200 yd. with her drives, scoring under 90. When it was established that Babe Didrikson is also an expert swimmer, basketball player, baseball pitcher, football halfback, a proficient billiardist, a clever tumbler, a boxer and wrestler, a fencer, weight lifter and adagio dancer, she could only be described by appalled reporters...
...first quarter occurred a prolonged, painful, unproductive collision between two of the ablest college lines in the U. S., mostly at Notre Dame's end of the field. In the second quarter, small, cotton-topped Irving ("Scooter") Warburton, U. S. C. substitute back, caught a 35-yd. Notre Dame punt and took it back to where it started, at Notre Dame's 44-yd. line. Warburton picked up 14 yd. through the line, then 2 more. Coach Howard Jones sent in one of his ablest passers, Bob McNeish. McNeish, instead of passing, arranged...
Alabama's Captain John ("Hurry") Cain cut through St. Mary's right tackle on his own 29-yd. line, swerved toward the left side of the field, wriggled away from three tacklers and sidestepped two more on his way to the goal. After 57 more minutes of bruising, grunting, thumping, kicking and pounding, the score still remained Alabama 6, St. Mary's 0, at San Francisco...