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Word: might (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ordinarily, the Statute of Limitations prevents prosecution for a crime six years after it is perpetrated, but the hitch is that the Statute doesn't "run" for time spent outside the state. His Majesty, now in retirement in British Columbia, might yet end his days sticking wads of Blackjack under a cot in Charlestown State Prison...

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

...University could conceivably bring a civil action to get back the money it lost, by attaching the King's salary from Collier's. More than 30 years' interest added to the $678.67 might make it worth a try. Maybe endow a small chair in Criminology...

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

...regatta have made entrance in the Hudson affair impossible, as far as the respective booking agencies were concerned. But surely some solution can be worked out to leave time for both races. Perhaps the idea of rowing Yale after commencement could be dropped. Any one of several solutions might do the trick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Up the Creek | 6/2/1949 | See Source »

...Dudley Gate, will flank the sundial and bear the inscriptions of the original benches. These read, "One of thy founders him New England know who staid thy feeble sides when thou wast low" and "who spent his state his strength and years with care that after comers in them might have share...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Work Begins on Memorial Near Lamont | 5/31/1949 | See Source »

Anyone looking at Alexander Foote a second time might remember him, but the chances are he wouldn't be looked at twice. A quiet chap of 44, about 5 ft. 9 in., with thinning, mouse-colored hair, he looks like the British civil servant he is; he works for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries now. But back in the '30s, he was a disgruntled salesman who had swallowed communism hook, line & sinker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inconspicuous Man | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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