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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 »

...should prove embarrassing to Virginia Military Institute as the graduates from Brother Rat, Bing Edwards (Eddie Albert), Billy Randolph (Wayne Morris), Dan Crawford (Ronald Reagan), project their prankish adolescence into extramural life. In the absence of one Mr. Harper they move into his apartment, smash a priceless ship model, pilfer and pawn an invaluable Stradivarius, appropriate $200 Harper has left in Bing's care, finally burn up the apartment, for which Bing has forgotten to mail the insurance policy. "Anyway," says one prankster, "Mr. Harper still has his life." It is distinctly not funny. The only one who manages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...possibilities for new and starting attacks given such human material. The quarterback could swipe the other team's signals and the boys would always be able to steal a march on the enemy. With a thefty 200-pound line and a sly backfield, the boys could carry the pilfer a touchdown every time...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, | Title: What's His Number? | 10/24/1939 | See Source »

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