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...Niff expects that the new undergraduate library may have larger clientele this year because of the draft exemption rule for students in the upper half of their class. Scholars in the upper half of their class. Scholars attempting to pilfer books for longer study however, will be confronted again with last year's fine of 75 cents per late book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamont Opens Doors Monday | 9/1/1950 | See Source »

...common object or experience, they believe, can be tinged with sexual excitement for some individual. Prosecutors have long known that firebugs are often unbalanced and get sexual satisfaction from watching either the fire itself or the extinguishers. Even shoplifters, according to the Washington psychiatrists, are often sexually abnormal, and pilfer objects with some obscure sexual significance (e.g., women who steal fountain pens, men who take gloves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Abnormal | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

Racket & Revolver. Reverdy was a normally mischievous boy who learned to swear and smoke and pilfer, but his mother did her best to counteract the effects of poverty and slums by encouraging her son in the religious life. When he finally decided to become a minister after graduating from Wilberforce University, she was delighted. But his farmer father exclaimed: "You're a fool to spend your life going through the world making your living off the damned niggers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Confessions of a Bishop | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

...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 »

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