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Word: purloins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Newspapermen Pile Up Customary 23-2 Lead Over Funning Bagsters as Stellar Game Is Called on Account of Darkness | 5/18/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Business in the Bystreets-- | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

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