Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convicts broke out to the main gate before being beaten back. ¶1934: nine convicts and a guard died in "The Lincoln Day Break." ¶1952: a loo-ft. tunnel was discovered shortly after prisoners were given a dinner by the warden for digging no tunnels during the previous year. ¶1953: a convict-made bomb killed Prison Manager Albert Gruber. A two-day riot and $500,000 fire killed one prisoner, destroyed five buildings. One-quarter of the prisoners (400 men) held a "sleep strike" after using barbiturates to go on a mass bender...
...experience defeated the squash team yesterday, as the Crimson lost its second Metropolitan League match against a team of Law School students and professors, 3 to 2. Captain Pete Milton, playing two, and fifth man Lee Folger won their matches against the Lincoln's Inn Society...
...varsity squash team looks for its second victory in the A division of the Metropolitan Squash League when it plays Lincoln Inn at 5 p.m. this afternoon on the Hemenway courts...
...broader tastes are heartening news for the future. Says Norman A. Geske, acting director of the University of Nebraska Art Galleries: "In our one big show, there is always a rumpus over something that's considered too daring. But on the whole, you can bring almost anything into Lincoln. I think we are abreast of the folks in New York City, and, in fact, some New Yorkers tell me we're ahead of them...
...showrooms, there was little indication that the automakers were paying attention to A.A.A.'s horsepower fear. Plymouth announced a 200 h.p. "Hy-Fire V8" to match Ford's 202 h.p. "Thunderbird V-8"; Dodge and Mercury were boosted to 225-230 h.p., while Chrysler and Lincoln were up to 285 h.p., with most of General Motors still to come. Horsepowers were so high that state legislators talked seriously about cutting speed limits, increasing fines and auto taxes, even passing laws requiring speed governors on every...