Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stronghold for hardened offenders. At Alcatraz trouble started last week when 23 prisoners refused to leave their cells to work. One hundred of the 280 inmates went on strike. When Warden James A. Johnston went to the prison mess-hall during inspection, Convict Burton Phillips, serving a life term for kidnapping, jumped on the 63-year-old warden from behind. Before guards could help him, Warden Johnston had been knocked down and savagely beaten...
...savor of its own. They were in fact the normal accompaniment of a primary election in which the major issue was to choose gubernatorial candidates to succeed Republican Governor Harold Giles Hoffman whose political star has been waning. In the Democratic primary Arthur Harry Moore, up for a third term as Governor after time out to be elected to the U. S. Senate (1935-41), was unopposed. A party split made the Republican race more exciting. Backed by Governor Hoffman's once powerful Republican machine was State Senator Clifford R. Powell, whose campaign was run by Mrs. Powell...
...clangorous world in which municipal antinoise campaigns have attracted wide and favorable attention, most laymen know that a decibel has something to do with the measurement of din, although few could define the term. Meanwhile acousticians have taken up a newer and less well-known unit, the phon, which may well become familiar to laymen because it is even more closely related to the sensibilities of the human ear than the decibel...
...exams, which occur at the beginning of next week, have any weight, it appears that the exams are failing in their attempt to give students any liking for the men on whom they are soon to recite. For by placing the examinations at the very beginning of the fall term, the Division has made too remote any work on them in Sophomore year and, for purposes of examination, useless, while there is hardly any time in the opening week of the term to make adequate study of the subjects. Thus the only time to get up the reading...
...Homer and the like, is hardly less attractive. Yet to expect the student to take time off from his regular summer pursuits, whether it be a job or travel or merely routine of outdoor pleasure, and to fill out his days with reading that had better been done in term time, is unfair to the student. And it is unfair in two ways, since it imposes on his time in the summer, and it causes him to lose much of the genuine pleasure which he might get from this reading if he were to have adequate time...