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Word: heist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first breathtaking news about $100,000 lifted from a University safe reached here recently when the man who masterminded the heist made a full confession in the pages of last week's Collier's magazine...

Author: By David G. Braaten, | Title: Author - Thief Lists $100,000 Harvard Haul | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

...only other heist in Harvard's history occurred some 20 years ago when a person or persons unknown pilfered a little strong box from Dean Brigg's desk, took it to a nearby men's room and pried it open. There was only five or so dollars in it, so clearly this cannot be the exploit recounted by the King of the Safecrackers

Author: By David G. Braaten, | Title: Author - Thief Lists $100,000 Harvard Haul | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

...ring was in the safe. "Aaah, how can I carry a 300-lb. safe?" the gunman asked in disgust. The pair emptied her jewel box, locked Sayde and the maid in a closet and beat it. Sayde wound up in a hospital with a fractured skull. The crooks' heist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Moe the Gonif | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...orchestra will be directed by Harry Kobialka of Wellesley and Malcolm Holmes '28. Included in the program will be Mozart's Symphony No. 28 in C Major, Beethoven's Coriolanus Overture, Heist's "Brook Green" suite, and two dances from the "Bartered Bride" by Smetana...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orchestra Will Travel to Wellesley Sunday; Pierian Sodality Lends Rehearsal Library | 3/1/1947 | See Source »

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