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Word: nones (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...endangered the lives of all students. Not only were demonstrators inside University Hall brutalized, but innocent by-standers were also attacked. This has a special significance for us Black students. At least three of our brothers were attacked for no other apparent reason than the color of their skin. None were in the immediate vicinity of University Hall; one in particular who was standing on the steps of Mathews Hall was clubbed repeatedly by a policeman who had lost his original quarry. Let this be clear: we will no longer tolerate these threats, implicit and explicit, upon our lives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Afro Statement | 4/12/1969 | See Source »

Coiled Tubing. The new steamer, a brainchild of William Lear, developer of the Lear Jet, supposedly has none of the liabilities of the old. It is powered by an external-combustion motor (which burns fuel outside the cylinders), uses yards of coiled tubing instead of an old-fashioned steam boiler and a special chemical preparation (to prevent freezing) instead of water. The fluid is sealed in, so it can't boil away. It is superheated to vapor by a burner that, according to Lear, "can burn anything from ground camel dung to high-grade gasoline"-although he recommends kerosene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transportation: A Doctored Stanley, We Presume? | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...never failed to take the day-marbles hand-carved from the finest porcelain commodes. Toucan Captain Len Smith, 50, winner of nine world championships, explained that only porcelain gives the "tolley" (shooter) the proper heft and feel. Every Toucan tolley is custom carved to fit the knuckle, but none has a diameter greater than .75 in.-the dimension prescribed by the British Marbles Board of Control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marbles: The Secret of the Terribles | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...None of the injured had as yet been admitted to Stillman Infirmary. At 6:30 three nurses, one doctor and a hospital attendant were on duty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Raid Sit-In at Dawn; 250 Arrested, Dozens Injured | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

Warmth. There was none of that now. Eric and Tim fooled around silently with the jeep. Tommy was smoking and still. Phoebe and Nora went to the station wagon, turned on the motor and the heat, and sat silenly inside. The sun began to set. And at 4:15, a Milford cop car pulled up, its blue roof light flashing...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The World is a Big Box | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

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