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Word: culprit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem may be a tough one for the Board, which is said to increase the punishment if a student's name is on the police blotter or in the Boston press. In this case, Boston papers headlined the names of everyone but the real culprit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Jailed for Breaking Window, But Only Dean Knows Who Did It | 6/12/1951 | See Source »

...freshman, caught later by University Police, said he opposed Mr. Truman's dismissal of MacArthur and wanted the list to determine which students were backing the president. Union Secretary Borden F. Beck '45 indicated that disciplinary action would be recommended against the culprit, who surrendered only part of the list, when apprehended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Lauds Truman's Dismissal of MacArthur | 4/12/1951 | See Source »

...escapes from a desert asylum for the criminal insane to find out whether he really committed the murder that put him there five years before. Mercedes McCambridge gamely turns up again, this time as a singing waitress who helps Ireland recover his lost memory and uncover the true culprit: a madman with a thriving business as a psychologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two of a Kind | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

...Robert Maier '54, members of the Massachusetts Hall basketball team, reported the theft of $19 at 10 p.m. last night, stating that they thought many other wallets had also been rified. Requirement of an athletic participation card for admission to the building led to the assumption that the culprit was a student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thief Deflates Wallets While Students Frolic | 2/20/1951 | See Source »

...well son of a cattleman, Walker cheats on his wife (Joanne Dru) and relies on his foster brother, Ranch Foreman Burt Lancaster, to rescue him from such scrapes as getting a neighboring girl into trouble. Thinking Lancaster the culprit, the girl's vengeful brothers go gunning for him. Walker helps them on the sly so he can eliminate Lancaster as an obstacle to his schemes for embezzling the old man's cattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Way Out West | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

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