Word: locks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earl was not coddled. When he was six, his mother "drove" him to school, where he suffered agonies. Grasping a pencil was for him what tightrope walking is to a normal man. Although he dared not eat in public till he was 18 or 19, he once picked the lock of his cousin's Model-T Ford with a hairpin, drove carefully around the block. In 1918, while he was at college, Earl's mother died and the following year his father killed himself. Instead of going to pieces, the crippled orphan boy matured overnight. Today Dr. Carlson...
...invaders won the only fall of the afternoon against Lee Ackerman, who was pinned in 7:45 with a reverse body lock. Harry Blaine and Bill Tyng, the two newcomers on the team, were forced to yield decisions to the visitors...
Ventilation experts have devised a system to circulate fresh air into the rooms during the nightly "lock-up" for blackouts. Light-proof louvres will be installed in each blackout shutter...
...call, the vandal turned the portrait of ex-President Lowell upside down and switched several volumes about on the shelves. Following the incident, the library staff announced that a thorough check-up of the books would be made to see if any were missing. In addition, a new, "foolproof" lock will be installed on the library door...
...hundred and twenty-eight pound Ted Schoenberg made it unanimous by pinning Warren Schwarzman twice in seven minutes in the next bout. Ted used a reverse body lock the first time, and did it again with a three-quarters nelson...