Word: listings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students who are to be excused from any final examinations will receive from the designated authority in the field a list of such examinations...
...Carella, whose body was found wrapped up in burlap with feet hacked off, gold tooth knocked out, scars sliced away. Most hopeful were they of pinning on the Rettich gang the great $428,000 armored truck robbery in Brooklyn last summer (TIME, Sept. 3), Day by day grew the list of crimes of which the gang was suspected: a mail truck robbery of $100,000 in Warren, Ohio; another of $51,000 in Butler, Pa.; an American Railway Express truck robbery of $10,000 in Perth Amboy, N. J.; three Massachusetts bank robberies totaling $51,500; a $200,000 jewel...
...each horse and of which the state and track each get a share -have been legalized in 23 states, bookmaking has increased instead of declined. Big bettors and system bettors prefer to bet against bookmakers because their odds, unlike pari-mutuel odds, are stable and their bets untaxed. A list of major U. S. bookmakers would include, besides Shaw and Kearney, the names of at least a half dozen men who live handsomely on their bettors...
Headed "Prosperity Club-In God We Trust," the chain letter contains six names. A recipient is supposed to mail a dime to the first name on the list, and that name is then scratched off. At the bottom of the list is added the name of the recipient, who then mails out five copies to gain new "Prosperity Club" members. He does not receive any dimes until after his letters have multiplied six times and his name has moved to the top of the list. Then if the chain is unbroken, he will receive no less than 15,625 dimes...
...students who are to be excused from any final examinations will receive from the designated authority in the field a list of such examinations...