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Word: crypted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jake is Home. Mulling over Denton's strange disappearance, detectives had the house searched again. Finally they found a neatly plastered crypt under the basement stairs. In it was Jake Denton's body, shot in the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Louise | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...crypt was long since rifled by the Greeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New England Questions | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

...neat package. Then he locked and shuttered his shop, and with his bundle of money under his arm, took a stroll to Belgrade's biggest cemetery. There he held a long conversation with a sexton. The money changed hands. The sexton led the way to a family-sized crypt, which Cohen entered. The crypt's massive door slammed, was locked from the outside. Shortly after, the Germans blitzed Belgrade, then took over what was left of the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Lo, from the Tomb | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

Reburied. Will Rogers, cowboy humorist-philosopher who was killed in 1935 in an Alaska plane crash; in a white stone crypt on a hillside near his home town, Claremore, Okla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 5, 1944 | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...ornate Paz family crypt in Buenos Aires' comfortable La Recoleta cemetery, honors came thick last week to the late José Clemente Paz, founder of Argentina's La Prensa. The Argentine Government issued a special commemorative postage stamp. Nationwide collections were taken to erect a monument. U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull sent a laudatory cable, as did many another foreign notable. It was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Argentina's most famous journalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Argentina's Voice | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

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