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Word: burglarizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Burglar. In Pleasantville, N. Y., a police lieutenant snooping for a grocery store burglar discovered a policeman making off with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 3, 1941 | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...piles driven down to bed rock. The cut & cover method (trench-like excavation covered with wooden flooring) necessitated digging through a tangle of telephone cables, power lines, water mains, gas pipes, pneumatic mail tubes, sewer pipes, steam mains, telegraph wires, police and fire alarm lines, conduits for refrigerator brine, burglar alarm wires, quotation ticker lines, traffic signal wires. Without suspending these services, the pipes and wires had to be slung from the flooring or rerouted on the surface. Where the cut & cover method was not adaptable, direct tunneling had to be done-sometimes with compressed air and a shield under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Lebensraum for the Straphanger | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...questions the threat or even the actual existence, of a certain degree of attempted sabotage directed at the defense program. The country needs a watchdog to guard against such criminal activity. But everyone knows that a good watchdog is not an inexperienced loud-mouthed puppy that scents a burglar in every bush and snaps at every stranger. The Dies Committee has proved itself a willing sounding board for what Max Lerner has called "kiss and tell" disgruntled fascists and communists of perjured word and shady background. It has seized at every opportunity to hit the headlines with some, new "expose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE BITE, LESS BARK | 12/4/1940 | See Source »

Into the shelters crowded Jews, Gentiles, pickpockets, lovers. Crime was non-existent in London last week, the lawless taking shelter with their victims. Burglar alarms, set off by concussion, rang aimlessly for hours. Love was almost as difficult, since there was no privacy in shelters and little time during the day. Snobbery survived. Better-dressed people in some apartment houses refused to enter shelters with the proletariat, insisted on sitting on back stairways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: People's Week | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...Burglars. Targets for the Gangsters and other parashots will be a new class of parachute troops announced by Germany last week, trained to land on city housetops, equipped with burglar tools to break in, silken ropes down which to slide to the ground. They carry kernels of concentrated soot to make their own smoke screens while descending and after landing. Germany's "sealing" of the Maginot Line district last week, as well as the areas facing Britain, was interpreted as a precaution to keep prying eyes from seeing these burglars and other special troops at practice on new wrinkles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: It Begins | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

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