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Word: carli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Solution of the Peabody Museum was no nearer yesterday in spite of the efforts of Colonel Apted's office and the police. The robbers' escape in spite of the fact that a prowl car reached the scene not three minutes after the alarm sounded was still a mystery. The gold and jade objects were still unrecovered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No More Clues in Peabody's Robbery as Prophecy Shows | 1/4/1938 | See Source »

...prowl car men were in the museum at 4:17 o'clock, but the fugitives had made their escape by that time. A caretaker of the museum said that he saw a "very pale" man, about 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing about 150 pounds, leave the museum. That, so far, is the only clue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "NOTHING NEW" IN INVESTIGATION OF PEABODY ROBBERY | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...theft took place at exactly 4:12 o'clock in the afternoon. The time is known because it was at that point that the buzzer in Apted's office started functioning. Apted immediately dispatched a prowl car, a number of policemen, and some finger print experts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "NOTHING NEW" IN INVESTIGATION OF PEABODY ROBBERY | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...miles of the Trans-Iranian Railway (Persia's name officially became Iran in 1935) was completed-a winding, climbing engineering masterpiece through the Elburz Mountains between Bandar Shah and Bandar Shahpur. Iran's soldier-dictator, Reza Shah Pahlavi, had already ordered his gold, silver & rosewood private car...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Rails Against Opium | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...rating: 8 goals), Twentieth Century-Fox scenario executive; by Esther Foss Moore Roark, 32, daughter of Massachusetts' onetime Governor Eugene Noble Foss; in Los Angeles. Grounds: rudeness. Mrs. Roark testified that once, driving with her from Carmel to Los Angeles in wind & rain, he insisted on keeping the car's top down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 3, 1938 | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

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