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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed Louvain University Library-which resulted in a special clause in the Versailles treaty to compel the Germans to restock it. Amid the culture carnage of World War II, the second destruction of Louvain (in 1940) was a mere incident. What the Nazis didn't burn, bomb or pilfer from Europe's libraries, they fed into pulping machines to make new paper. The library of the Yugoslav Ministry of War was sold to a junk dealer for 180,000 dinars (about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Culture Carnage | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...home plate with a long belt down the left field line for three bases. Jack Knowles, who came in for the seventh inning to give Wallace a rest, singled to left and Pierce came romping in with the tenth run of the game. Knowles was cut down trying to pilfer second, and that ended the inning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Nine Tops Boston Embarkation Team, 10 to 2 | 7/19/1945 | See Source »

Harvard respected Hogan's arm, though, and no Varsity player attempted to pilfer second, and Paul Quinn was picked off second by the ex-Indian in the fourth. But Jim Gallagher made him and starting pitcher Al Cleary (from the Northern League) look mighty foolish in the third frame when the Crimson third-sacker stole home...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Crimson Nine Faces Pesky, Others Here In Battle With Amherst Trainees Friday | 4/28/1943 | See Source »

...paper goes to bed at 2 p.m. every Saturday, since that gives Alvin a chance to pilfer late flashes from the noon news broadcasts. Example: his Nov. 14 headline was RICKENBACKER IS RESCUED! It is such enterprise that gains Alvin new customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Self-Made Success | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...over the Java Sea since he was a slim stripling. It was part of life in the underarmed, fabulously rich, strangely strategic Indies, lying like a rich, jewel-encrusted girdle athwart the sea traffic of half the world. Some day the hungry Jap would snatch at that girdle to pilfer its jewels. If he succeeded, that half of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Het is Zoover | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

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