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...answer is right, it earns ten points and gives the winners a chance at a bonus question worth from 15 to 50 points. If a team thinks it can anticipate a tossup question, it is free to interrupt Ludden before he finishes, but if the answer is incorrect, there is a five-point penalty.This can be demoralizing: last week Rutgers incorrectly anticipated the first question and never got going afterward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Twelve Straight | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...York's] Idlewild [ Airport ] after failing three times to hold the instrument glide-path which would have brought it down to the runway. It is written on the idea that the instrument or instruments-altimeter-cum-drift-indicator-failed or had failed, was already out of order or incorrect. It is written in grief. Not just for the sorrow of the bereaved ones of those who died in the crash, and for the airline, but for the pilot himself, who, along with his unaware passengers, was victim of that mystical, unquestioning, almost religious awe and veneration in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgments & Prophecies, Jan. 3, 1955 | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...bill was quite unexpected and takes us by surprise. The week by week reports sent out by Ivy Films last year were incorrect," Phillipe L. Villers '55, president of the Liberal Union stated last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy Cinema Still Owes Over $500 For Film Series | 11/12/1954 | See Source »

...would be incorrect to imply that Princeton is facing a totally new problem in its underclass years," Heath wrote in the October, 1953, Alumni Weekly. "But the many sources of information available to the University attest to the fact that somehow since World War II the problem is reaching more serious proportions...

Author: By Steven C. Swett, | Title: Princeton: Changing Underclass Years | 11/6/1954 | See Source »

...been my assumption, in the past, that while Harvard had de-emphasized football, it had not, at the same time, reduced standard services to its fans who come out on Saturday afternoons to see the Crimson play. It seems, however, that this assumption on my part was incorrect. During the Columbia game last Saturday my date had the misfortune of being the target of a full can of beer thrown by an overly elated fan who hadn't the common decency to apologize to her when he saw she was injured. Be that as it may, she received a gash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO AID FOR SPECTATORS | 10/19/1954 | See Source »

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