Word: exits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College professor yesterday attacked as "a waste of $1,500 a year" the keeping open of the "unused" basement exit of Widener every evening...
Until recently, the exit just inside Massachusetts Avenue had closed at 5:30 p.m., but Robert H. Haynes, assistant librarian of the College, last night defended the change on two grounds...
...valley's exit stood a line of American tanks which opened fire on the Gloucesters, mistaking them for Reds. An American liaison plane, which had been following their escape, saved the Gloucesters. Said Harvey: "The plane went down and sort of waggled his wings at the tanks -sort of a signal I guess-and they lifted their fire on to the Chinese machine guns. An American lieutenant said we'd have to make a run for it, so we climbed on the tanks and away we went, hell for leather, right through the Chinese...
...platinum target, which produced X rays, and then aiming the X rays into the patient's cancer. The new technique is to use the electrons in the raw. The advantage: whereas an X-ray beam keeps going after it has passed through cancerous tissue, and may cause "exit burns" where it leaves the body, the electron beam can be focused to hit the cancer site and then dissipate itself...
...Beliefs Imply Action." It took Pastor George two days to get the police to do anything about it. When a police captain was finally assigned to investigate the place, and found gambling going on, he promptly left to get help. But George blocked the exit with his 205-lb. frame and nobody even tried to escape. Next morning, the exploit made the headlines, and letters began to pour in supporting his one-man crusade. For a week he patrolled the gambling and red-light belts each night, but the underworld seemed to have gone out of business...