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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...
...long legs limberer than ever after two years in the Army, Northwestern's sophomore speed merchant, galloping Jim Golliday, outran a light breeze and the best sprinters in the Big Ten to tie the world's loo-yd.-dash record (0:09.3) in the Big Ten Relays at Evanston...
...Commenting on this interpretation, Judge Holtzoff quoted a passage from Lewis Carroll's Through the Loo king-Glass: " 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less...
...race-track trick of betting a few bob on all the Irish horses in England's Grand National steeplechase almost broke the books at Aintree when a loo-to-g shot named Quare Times, running under the colors of Mrs. William Welman of Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland, romped home in the mud by 12 lengths. Another Irish horse, Carey's Cottage (20-1), came in third...
Goose & Carrot. Life on America's radar line-the loo-odd Aircraft Control and Warning stations-is an unsettling mixture of utter monotony and utmost intensity. Although every operator knows that the next blip on his radarscope could be the herald of death, staring steadily into the electronic eye can be endlessly boring. Radar sites are usually remote and lonely. Permanent stations, costing $5,000,000 each to build and $500,000 yearly to run, are surprisingly elaborate. Example: "Mother Goose," a warning site about 65 miles east of Albuquerque, N. Mex., is set up to protect...