Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cross country runners race again today in their second attempt of the season as the University handicaps get under way over the four mile course along the river. With 41 men signed up, the harriers will get their second trial under competition while the ability of Jaakko Mikkola as a handicapper will be put to its first trial of the season...
...Another trial will be held in Phillips Brooks House this evening. Regular rehearsals will start immediately following the elections...
Last week in a Murfreesboro, Ark. courtroom a Negro named Charles Gentry, charged with murder, sat down for trial before a jury of his peers, found himself looking into twelve faces black as his own. Before testimony began his white lawyer pleaded unsuccessfully for dismissal of the charge because a white grand jury voted his black client's indictment. Sixty-five minutes after the testimony was completed and the State had made a plea for the death penalty, the twelve Negro sawmill workers found Negro Gentry guilty of slaying Negro Jasper Evans, sentenced him to five years...
Yale's custom of having makeup exams in the fall is of long standing. Any man who fails a subject in the spring must undergo a re-trial when he comes back to college, and until two years ago all those who passed such an exam were immediately reinstated and allowed to represent Yale on the athletic field...
Last week, Britain's sensation-reading public had something else to ponder besides Skipper Orsborne's memories artfully ghost-written in third-rate Kiplingese. Up in Bow Street Court stood Skipper "Dod" and his Brother Jim Orsborne to hear themselves indicted for stealing the Girl Pat. Trial begins next month in Old Bailey, promises to provide some Grade A nautical sensations. As the two accused sailors stepped out of the iron-grilled prisoners' dock, their lawyer, Christmas Humphreys, hinted: "Very serious allegations will have to be made against certain witnesses for the prosecution...