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Word: robbed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reginald deKoven's romantic comic opera "Robin Hood," telling the age old legend of the gallant band of outlaws, has been successfully revived. The merry outlaws score the musical triumph of the evening as they rob the rich, give to the poor, and sing the merits of "Brown October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 9/29/1944 | See Source »

Stockbrokers were sternly warned last week against rumormongering. The warning came from Emil Schram, NewYork Stock Exchange's president, who fears that a speculative boom in low-priced securities might: 1) collapse and rob a lot of small investors of their savings; 2) bring demands for even more stringent Government control of the Exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Taboo on Tips | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

Since most U.S. citizens and bankers do not understand the fund or its operations any better than Senator Taft, there is a good chance that Congress will turn the proposals down as a deep-laid scheme to rob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXCHANGE: Expert Opinion | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

Cape Town, busy, crowded tavern of the seas, is plagued by young mulatto hoodlums who work in gangs and are called skollies. Between 1939 and 1942, operations of the skollies caused a notable increase of murders, assaults and rapes. Sometimes using colored girls for decoys, skollies waylay and rob British and American servicemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Skollies | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...words of a British mother, refusing to send her children to safety in the U.S. at the war's start. Said she: "Something is happening here they must feel and know if ever they are to be a part of England again. Whatever the risks, I cannot rob my children of their country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Man of England | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

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