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Word: pranksters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last Aztec ruler, Eulalia Guzman packed up for another trip to Ixcateopan. The red-faced Bank of Mexico kept its own counsel. One question remained unsolved: Was the hoax the work of a 20th Century man, or had it been perpetrated by some long-forgotten 16th Century prankster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Whose Bones? | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...plywood with two radio tubes and a quart oilcan mounted on pieces of plastic. Painted on the wood were a hammer & sickle and the letters, U.S.S.R. Another "flaming saucer" that spun down from overhead gave Shreveport, La. a good scare, turned out to be a joke by a local prankster who wanted to frighten his boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Things That Go Whiz | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

While things were relatively quiet, someone from Thayer took a successful potshot with a snowball at one of the Yard cops. The startled officer dashed after the prankster and both disappeared into Thayer's Middle entry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nocturnal Brawl In Snow Shatters Stillness of Yard | 1/25/1949 | See Source »

Police have taken the bomb's remains to the State Police Laboratory in an effort to discover its origin. They provisionally attribute the bomb to a prankster's attempt to re-create the excitement of the January 9 robbery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petard Fills Coop With Smoke, Cops | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

...Jest. Near Bursa, Turkey, two passengers jumped from a speeding bus when a prankster, riding along in a coffin, raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 2, 1948 | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

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