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This winter, he can forget about Endzone Crone while he sits in Section 18 getting his yah-yah's out over what is probably the best Harvard hockey team in history (nostalgia for the days of the Cleary brothers and Tim Taylor's '62 team aside). Harvard unquestionably has its most explosive offensive team ever. With 15 goals in its first two games against very respectable opposition, the Crimson is off to a fast start. B.U. may be having an off-year compared to its last two national championship teams, but it is a testimony to Harvard...
...into beautiful glazed bricks, Iran uses them extensively in its architecture; but the art of glazing had slipped to the point that the architects had difficulty in finding an artisan who could make the green, blue-grey and brown bricks needed for the ceiling. Finally they located one Oosta Yah-Yah. who had trained under a U.S. ceramicist, and he set to work making the bricks. Among the masons was a group of remarkable boys, 12 to 14 years old. Working in teams of three, the teen-aged bricklayers laid the 4-in.-thick, lozenge-shaped glazed brick...
General Stilwell is a soldier's officer, whose one passion is leading and training troops. His mouth is thin, his face hard and decisive beneath greying black hair. Fast of foot and mind, General Stilwell is forever barking: "Yah-Yah!" when his thoughts leap ahead of a companion's words. When they jump far ahead, he barks in triplicate: "Yah-yah-yah...
With all its imperfections, at which irreverent laymen are inclined to yah-yah, the English and American Common Law is the world's most sensitive instrument of justice. Its scales have been adjusted during more than 600 years of human experience with the same basic procedure: jury trial.b For the presentation of evidence, the raw material of justice, English law by the end of the 19th Century had arrived at a stable system of rules. Not so, however, U. S. law, which has not one but 50 legal systems (48 State courts, Federal Courts, District of Columbia...
Engagement Reported. Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (Yah-dvee-ga Yed-drze-yoef-ska-"Yah-Yah"), 25, Polish typist-tennist who eats beefsteak for breakfast, hits tennis balls as powerfully as a man; to Captain Laskswski Karinier; in Warsaw...