Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three years ago, when the cops first caught Knifey stealing, they listed him as a boy of "superior intelligence." Knifey had a flair for mechanics. A home for wayward boys took charge of him, put him on a farm near Momence, 40 miles south of Chicago. There Knifey broke into...
Died. Charles R. Apted, 67, mild-mannered, bespectacled head of Harvard "yard cops" for 39 years; in Cambridge, Mass. Protector of boys as well as property, he gently dissolved student "riots," bailed the too-high-spirited out of jail at unearthly hours, restored to Yale the Harvard-snatched bulldog, Handsome...
It was when the boys got in trouble with the outside authorities that General Apted really took on the guise of a friend in need. A word from him and the Cambridge cops would free a luckless inebriate from the Central Square jail and allow him to proceed to his...
When the balloons, littered beer cans and mangled bodies had all been swept up from Mem Hall floors this morning, the Yardling Smoker Committeemen stood out clearly as peers of their trade. Old grads, blase upperclassmen and burly Yard cops burbled in unison that this year's Smoker was tops...
After the fire was over and the crowd had dispersed, a committee composed of a proctor and two Yard cops investigated and deduced that it had started in a drawer of a desk at about 8:30 o'clock and had not been noticed when the building was closed up...