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...grumpy departure. One of the prisoners had wriggled free, released his companions, spread the alarm. Police, detectives, Naval officials hastened to the scene. Roundabout the safe room were strewn nitroglycerine cans, percussion caps, crowbars, electric drills, gloves, an acetylene torch. The outer door of the massive safe, its lock drilled and mangled, was open. The inner door, dented, drilled, wrenched on its hinges, was shut. For three hours a safe expert knifed the steel door with an oxyacetylene torch, at last swung it open Potent though the raid had been, the $84.500 was intact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Jobs oj the Week | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Fortnight ago, ushers at the Harvard-Dartmouth football game impounded a dozen gate-crashing moppets in a wire cage beneath the Soldiers Field stadium. Tiresome children! Lock them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Children's Rights | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Play starts from a kickoff, much as in our game. Tackling is the same, but more often on frozen ground, and as noted previously, there is no padding to break the fall. After the ball is down, eight men of each side lock arms, in a close formation or "pack", and shove directly against the opposing pack. The ball is thrown between the two groups by the referee, and the front line of each pack tries to hook the ball with the feet and kick it backward through the pack to a back who waits for it. Success in this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Rhodes Scholar Compares Rugby Football With American Game--Declares English Sport Equally Exciting | 11/8/1929 | See Source »

...hands of the entire membership, with the idea of ascertaining the police's attitude on the matter. That was succinctly voiced by Captain Michael Brennan of Station One, when he said to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday: "Well, he drew a big crowd and he wanted us to lock him up, but we were on to him, so we didn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $10,000 DAMAGES AS COHEN GROUNDS ON SQUARE ISLAND | 10/5/1929 | See Source »

...heard from a back room. "Ah," approved Mr. Warren, "you have one of these new writing machines. That is what I like to see?a modern, progressive spirit." After Mr. Warren had left, the typewriter was discovered to be Mr. Cartwright, industriously clicking a large key in a rusty lock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Stone & Webster | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

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