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Word: sprung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, up for parole, Model Prisoner Corpier gave his parole board a jolt. Though he had a job waiting for him, he said, he did not want to be sprung until he had trained at least one student to take over his course. As a matter of fact, he was not only willing to pass up future paroles; he would, if necessary, stay until his term ended in 1959 and "the warden kicks me out." Corpier had a compelling reason for such a decision: if he could prepare his students to qualify for FCC licenses, they would surely find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mission Behind Bars | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

Oleomargarine Scion Minot F. ("Mickey") Jellce, 27, was sprung from a New York pen after serving 21 months for high-level pandering in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 15, 1957 | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

thinner but looking fairly hale for his 65 years, showed up for a happy session in a Manhattan court. Sprung from a federal pen, Costello left the court a temporarily free man on $25,000 bail. The U.S. Supreme Court had paved his way by ruling that he may circulate while his appeal on a conviction for evading $28,532 in federal income taxes is being considered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 25, 1957 | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

WHRB, located in the basement of Dudley Hall, has always been a student owned and operated non-profit commercial radio station. Legends have sprung up to the effect that our signal is "sent through the steam pipes" in some mysterious fashion; actually, the radio signal is impressed on the lighting circuit of each dormitory in the steam tunnels under the University, and these tunnels also contain the lines with which we can send a signal from such places as Sanders Theatre and New Lecture Hall back to the studio, where we can either record it for future use or broadcast...

Author: By Robert C. Valtz, | Title: From the Station Manager... | 3/23/1957 | See Source »

Entry parties take place early in the fall term, with each resident tutor acting as host to the undergraduates in his entry. In some instances, inter-entry athletic rivalries have sprung up with individual tutors as active participants, further solidifying the tutor-student relationship and abetting the balance between student and athlete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Is a Versatile House | 3/22/1957 | See Source »

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