Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secret buttons, like those used by bank tellers to call aid in case of robberies, were placed on the desks of the President's secretaries to enable them to summon the White House guards if visitors grew ugly. " Just a precaution," said the Secret Service...
...Government built the barnyard exhibit and are at work on five others which show how different creatures see the world. To a dog all things are grey, because dogs are colorblind. Fish are nearsighted and the refraction of water distorts the feet of a fisherman standing on a bank. The mosaic structure of a fly's eye gives him a multitude of images. A turtle's world is a shifting scene of bright spots because light Attracts its eyes. A huge chameleon will turn the color of the clothes of the person who may stand before the photocell...
Further questioning at the bank revealed that Haskell was not the only student who has suffered by forging during the year. "There is always a certain amount of it, of course," said Sayward, "but this year it has been heavier than before." There was some evident that the same man had been responsible for more than this one offence. The forging was described as extremely careless in this case, although in the past it has been done in such a fashion as to defy detection...
Colonel Charles R. Apted '10, Chief of the Yard Police, is working on the case, as are also the Cambridge police, and the Burns Detective Agency, with whom the Bank has an arrangement...
...large, generally being in the vicinity of $35 to $50. With three agencies working on the forging, it was not believed that the culpit could remain at large very long. It was furthered believed that he was a man well acquainted with the procedure of the University and the Bank, and that he lived, or had lived near the Yard for some time. In many of the other forgeries, students whose names were signed to checks they never wrote, had noticed that papers bearing their bona fide signatures had been removed from their rooms a short time before the forgery...