Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several years ago the daughter of the president of Colby College and her escort were walking by the spacious Observatory grounds, when a burglar jumped out of the darkness and snatched her purse containing $1.35. Shortly afterwards another man was robbed and the culprit again escaped...
...time it appeared that John Shea had failed on his biggest case. But one day he noticed a graduate student walking out of the library with a bulging briefcase. Shea stopped the student, examined the briefcase, and found it stuffed with unchecked books. The University police took the culprit into custody...
...culprit; nor blows...
...intend to find out who altered the transcripts," Kelly told reporters Wednesday. "When we catch that culprit, we shall find out if he did it on an original impulse or if some superior put pressure on him. In that event, we certainly will not spare the superior...
...Last year a giant orange "51" was mysteriously changed to an equally giant "'54" by the then-freshman class. Just as mysteriously the following night it was changed to a "'24," which happens by some coincidence to be the Princeton class of several important University officials, including Godolphin. The culprit has not yet been found...