Word: keys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...liberal policy?has often been called "the prison without walls." Built to hold 1,350, it was last week overcrowded with 1,818 malcontents. On Sunday the men, numbering 1,700, led by a trusty, walked to the yard for an outing. At the trusty's knock at the "key room," a guard opened the door, was immediately kicked senseless. After shooting another guard, stealing his keys, the convicts seized guns from the arsenal, set torches to the buildings, attacked the walls. The yard billowed with smoke, beneath which convicts chopped apart fire hoses, kept up a rattling fire. After...
...typewriter could be distinctly heard from a back room. "Ah," approved Mr. Warren, "you have one of these new writing machines. That is what I like to see?a modern, progressive spirit." After Mr. Warren had left, the typewriter was discovered to be Mr. Cartwright, industriously clicking a large key in a rusty lock...
...system, but I can say that an assistant's position should not be the means of any graduate student working his way through for a Ph.D., nor should it be a position for any man who happens to want it who can flash a Phi Beta Kappa key. One does not have to be a scholar to be a teacher...
...this golden key...
...fumbles with a key...