Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Princeton University Princeton...
...afternoon on Jupiter Island, Dulles got to talking enigmatically about how he and a classmate had made a study of probabilities at Princeton. "If you flipped a coin ten times and it turned up heads every time," said the Secretary of State, "what would be the probability that it would turn up tails on the eleventh flip?" The study, he said, had helped him in diplomacy. How he reckoned his chances in the eleventh flip just ahead...
...travelers who reached it came back with reports of a fabulous treasure-trove of art hidden behind its 50-ft.-thick walls. But no one was allowed to photograph or even to catalogue it. Then last year a team of scholars and technicians, jointly sponsored by Princeton, Michigan, and Alexandria universities, got permission to make the first complete record of Mount Sinai's treasures. This week TIME publishes an unprecedented sampling of the expedition's finds...
...addition, it should even up considerably the later contests in May with Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth, important matches which in the past have always been trouble spots. The fact that the Crimson meets both Yale and Dartmouth on its own course this year should also be of help in the Ivy competition...
...also "very optimistic" about the team's chances in the Easterns to be played at Princeton on Saturday...