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Stealing money from Brink's is a lot easier than stealing exams from the University Press, so you might as well go back to studying or planning your next holdup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Robbing A Bank Is Simpler Than Stealing An Exam | 1/28/1950 | See Source »

Testing. In Baltimore, Liquor Dealer Albert Steinberg reluctantly handed over $100 to a holdup man who tossed back the cash and said: "I don't want your money. I just wanted to see how much guts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...undisclosed amount of cash was stolen at 7:05 p.m. last night in an armed holdup at the Harvard Provision Company, 94 Mount Auburn Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gunman Steals Cash from 'Pro' | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...companion, whose name was withheld because of his age, was carrying a toy pistol. He was immediately released to his parents. Police thought that the pair's unusual behavior in the H.A.A. ticket office pointed to an attempt to size up the layout of the place before a holdup, rather than an actual crime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Police Rule Out HAA Robbery Attempt | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...continued Doyle, "is a paragraph about 'Marty,' who had difficulties in school, found Latin and algebra 'dull,' quit school . . . 'drifted from one dead-end job to another,' fell in with evil companions, and finally used a gun on a druggist during a holdup. As he awaited sentence, one of his former teachers reflected: 'I was a big help to that boy. I taught him Tennyson and compound verbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Flapdoodle | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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