Word: pawns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Catherine the Great was not a Russian nor was her name Catherine. Born Sophia Augusta Frederica, the unconsidered daughter of a German princeling, she was brought up to be a pawn of European diplomacy; at 14 she was sent to Russia to marry her third cousin, Grand Duke Peter (half-German). For 17 years she lived at the Russian court, waiting for the aging Empress Elizabeth to die, waiting-what was worse-for her neurotic husband to make her his wife. The first nine of those years they lived together, and Catherine did her wifely duty as her husband...
Other articles identified by the thief as having been stolen by him have been "stopped" at various pawn shops in the Metropolitan area. A complete list maybe procured early next week from the Cambridge Police Station at Central Square. Sergeant Donlan of the Cambridge Police, is in charge of the Harvard end of the case. The list follows...
...only other Freshman to defeat Coggan was John Moore, who played the Queen's Pawn opening and forced Coggan to resign on the 40th move after the loss of his castle...
...whole thesis behind this program is the very theory that man is but the pawn of the State. It is a usurpation of the primary liberties of man by government. It is a vast shift from the American concept of human rights, which even the government may not infringe, to those social philosophies where men are wholly subjective to the State. It is a vast casualty to liberty if it shall be continued...
...official agencies investigating what was rapidly becoming the greatest political crime of the 20th Century made the following advances to public knowledge: ¶ To the parliamentary committee investigating the Stavisky scandal was privately exhibited the suddenly suppressed newsreel film showing the body of the wrecker of the Bayonne municipal pawn shop as it was found last January in a mountain cottage at Chamonix. The committee, on which were several doctors, immediately noticed several facts tending to contradict the police theory of suicide. There were no powder burns visible on the body. A pistol was clutched in his left hand...