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...second half was discouraging for the home team, and not especially good basketball. Several times the margin was narrowed to eleven points, but then an easy lay-up would be missed and the Indians would open up the lead again. The fifteen-point margin at the end is a deceptive figure, for the winner did not extend themselves and used substitutes liberally...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Crimson Downed, 86-71, by Green Quintet | 3/3/1956 | See Source »

...strong Providence College sextet scored four first-period goals against the Freshman Hockey team yesterday at Watson rink and then hung on through the rest of the game to win, 4 to 2. The loss snapped the Crimson's winning streak at fifteen games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Providence Sextet Breaks '59 Streak | 2/24/1956 | See Source »

Later investigation thoroughly refuted these charges. De Vaux and Harding first thought the Qumran ruins were simply an insignificant Roman fortress. Further digging disclosed, however, remains of a "monastery", complete with a fifteen-foot tower which was still standing. Its walls were forty feet square and five feet thick. The rest of the building consisted of courts, passages, a scriptorium, and many other rooms. Coins found definitely dated the building, and pottery linked the building with the caves. This provided final proof of the Scrolls' authenticity...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Story of Uncertainty | 2/16/1956 | See Source »

Welles, in his first attempt at motion pictures, introduced photographic and dramatic effects which Hollywood, in its years of experience, had never come close to. Fifteen years later, Citizen Kane still stands as a masterpiece of directing, acting, and content. It was no easy feat to capture the life of a man of 76 years in 119 minutes. That the film does have discontinuities and lacks a strong sense of forward movement and plot was inevitable. Yet the film maintains a great sense of the dramatic and is quite gripping...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Citizen Kane | 2/15/1956 | See Source »

...plans to charge each passenger fifteen cents and use this money to keep up the maintenance of the car. The station wagon is on order and is expected within the month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gift Enables PBH To Purchase Car | 2/15/1956 | See Source »

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