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What helped the visitors was a one-for-13 performance from the floor by Penn's Perry Bromwell, who last Friday hit an 18-ft, jumper with four seconds to go to defeat Harvard...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Princeton Gives Cagers New Hope | 2/27/1985 | See Source »

Farrell's resurgence at the plate was perhaps the brightest spot in the batmen's performance. The beffy cleanup hitter endured a one-for-13 slump in the team's doubleheaders against Penn and Columbia last weekend. Yesterday he roared buck with a four-for-six outing that lifted his batting average from...

Author: By Chuck Lane, | Title: Batmen Ground Eagles, 7-6; Allard, Farrell Star at Plate | 4/28/1983 | See Source »

...Saturday night, an eight-hour, 32-inning affair that isn't over--it will be continued when the teams next meet in Pawtucket on June 23. Racking up 212 at bats the two teams struck out a total of 56 times, also an all-time record. Chico Walker, whose one-for-13 day could have been spread over a week-long slump, scored the two-out, ninth inning run that put the game into extra innings. When informed the game would be continued in June, he quipped. "Why wait? Everybody was ready...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

Terrorism may assist or impede the growth of a revolutionary movement, depending upon the target chosen and the consciousness with respect to it that exists in various sections of society. There are times when terrorism is a substitute-and a necessarily inadequate one-for mass action, and times when it encourages mass action. There are times when terrorism is a politically valuable adjunct to a mass radical movement, though it can never be the substance of such a movement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail CFIA BOMBING | 10/17/1970 | See Source »

Judge Robert M. Duncan, who wrote the opinion, also objected on grounds that any wage earner would understand. The workhouse pay rate is far too low to recompense a man-even a convicted one-for his labor, said the judge. He wisely declined to establish a new pay scale for prisoners. "This," he said, "is a legislative question." But some refused to wait. Cincinnati City Manager Richard Krabach issued an executive order setting $10 a day as the rate for those serving time, thereby releasing 98 prisoners who had already worked enough days to pay their fines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: A Criminal Wage | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

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