Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlantic City, A. A. A. S. officers and bigwigs made more theoretical and philosophical speeches than usual last week, but there was a fine display of devices to feed the traditional appetite of U. S. science for neat experiments and clever machines (see p. 50). There was a burglar alarm which fills a room with ultrashort radio waves, so that a person stepping into the room interrupts the waves and actuates the signal. There was a photoelectric meter which determines the Vitamin D content of a cod-liver oil sample by passing a light beam through...
Ways & Means, a farce about two bankrupt professional guests who are luckily burgled, persuade the burglar to rob someone else and split the proceeds...
...Totteridge, Hertfordshire, a burglar raided the house of roly-poly Lord Chief Justice Baron Hewart, walked off with worthless papers. Three days later the burglar returned to filch the Lord Chief Justice's typewriter...
...Hempstead, N. Y., Burglar Emil Gross heard a noise, leaped into a bed, yanked the covers over his head, was caught by police snoring ostentatiously between Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Dayton, whom he had intended...
...months' baby, he still looked like a foetus when he was born, had to be incubated. His parents soon found him a precocious handful, gradually came to the conclusion that John was a being superior to the normal. Because he needed money for his private schemes, he turned burglar at a tender age, committed his first murder at the age of 9 (self-defense: the policeman had caught him red-handed). He sold many an invention, cleaned up in the stockmarket before he was well into his teens. Unwary adults, engaging him in conversation, wished they had not. John...