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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...
...company will earn more before taxes this year (an estimated $700 million) than it did in the entire 21 years between two world wars, 1919 through 1939. In fact, said Breech, Ford has already made a greater profit in the first three quarters of 1955 than in any previous full year...
...previous years the varsity has not finished well in this race. Most colleges in the East compete and only seven runners are allowed to represent each...
Kenneth Bainbridge, chairman of the Physics Department and professor of Physics, said that previous attempts to have tutorial in physics used the time and money of the physics faculty inefficiently. In addition, he pointed out that the exact sciences like physics "don't lend themselves to group discussions as well as the more subjective sciences...
...rain had in fact let up only once during the previous 24 hours, with the result that those who went to the game had resolved long before to stay until pneumonia set in. But it was at the moment when the downpour slackened that the editors of the Daily Princetonian came out to attempt distribution of a parody of the CRIMSON. That was about 6 a.m. Saturday...