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Word: burglar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...burglar entered the building by the front door, walked past a steward into a rear room, grabbed the box (although it was unlocked) and escaped through a back window. Harvard and Cambridge police have been notified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $20 Stolen From Graduate Center | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Local and state police continued their search yesterday for a burglar who evaded arrest after vainly attempting to force open a safe at George's Cottage Grill on Holyoke Street last Wednesday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thief Still at Large | 4/26/1949 | See Source »

...Deposit Only. In Denmark, Wis., Bank President George de Broux, whose bank had been held up, insisted that his burglar-alarm system worked fine; the only trouble was that the guard's rifle ammunition was locked in a safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 21, 1949 | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Gourmet. In Los Angeles, the burglar who broke into Charles P. Durfey's cafe and whipped up a meal for himself left a note: "The steak was tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 14, 1949 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...true faith of an Armorer [is] to give arms to all men who offer an honest price for them . . . to Royalist and Republican, to Communist and Capitalist . . . to burglar and policeman, to black man, white man and yellow man, to all nationalities, all faiths, all follies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMAMENTS: The Iron Master | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

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