Word: purloin
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Employing the crouch start exclusively, as well as a flying wedge for running interference, the Plympton Street team wrestled its way around the dusty bases in one frantic inning after another. It was finally necessary for the Lampoon players to purloin one of the bases in order to end the game with a triple...
...exit been later, it would have been less dramatic. Dersingham, suspicious of his ungentlemanly manager, has tried to purloin the Baltic agency for himself. But Golspie is too quick for him, and he manages so that Dersingham finds his firm caught in fatal advance contracts with prices of foreign stock raised prohibitively. At this juncture Golspie, with the resuscitated Lena, embarks for South America, while Miss Matfield, who had finally consented to a weekend trip with her tycoon, forlornly looks for him at Victoria station, waiting to be seduced. The book closes with glimpses of the Smeeth and Dersingham families...
...ninth inning, jolly-good-fellows, fond of an honest roughhouse, chivalrous to the weaker sex, lovers of God's outdoors, their simple lives are a constant succession of triumphs over scheming bullies at a rival military academy, bears, wildcats, inertia and German plotters who attempt to purloin an important dye formula from an old friend of the Rover family. From the time when an aeroplane (not driven by a Rover or there would have been no accident) crashes into a lake in the first chapter till the last (which holds promise of yet another sequel, The Rover Boys Shipwrecked...
Where are the books in the reading rooms going? Faster and faster the volumes of prescribed reading are disappearing from the shelves in Massachusetts Hall. It is useless to preach here upon the pettiness of such theft; the men who are selfish enough and small enough to purloin the books are beyond the reach of exhortation. But in the interests of the Library and of future students in these courses, the kleptomaniacs are asked to return them, at least after the examinations for which they were borrowed are over. Undoubtedly the library authorities will receive them thankfully with "no questions...
...that these two libraries are so little used? Hardly more than one hundred of the members of the Union enter the library in a day; and many of these seem to think themselves privileged to mutilate or purloin the books. Less than fifty men use the Warren House Library per day. Both could accommodate many more...