Word: robin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robin Lee, 12, of Minneapolis: the junior men's figure skating championship of the U. S.; in Manhattan...
...august New York Times fortnight ago: "Five planes brought dozens of machine gats from Chicago Friday to combat The Town's Capone. . . . Local banditti have made one hotel a virtual arsenal and several hotspots are ditto because Master Coll is giving them the headache. One of the better Robin Hoods has a private phone in his cell...
...will begin in the next two weeks, it was announced yesterday by V. L. Eaton '34, Teams representing Eliot, Dunster, Leverett, Lowell, and Winthrop Houses, and two teams representing the Ramblers and the Freshman, will compete in the forth-coming tournament. The Freshman team was chosen through a round-robin tourney staged by the Harvard Chess Club, and has played together already in one informal match with Lowell House which resulted in a draw; R. M. Bowle '35 and Nathan Learner '35 won their games, and M. V. Levintritt '35 and P. B. Kenyon '35 were beaten after long seesion...
...Robin Hoods. Before the Senate Manufactures Committee were two bills for human relief: 1) a $250,000,000 appropriation sponsored by the committee's chairman, Senator Robert Marion La Follette Jr. of Wisconsin who likes to play a sort of political Robin Hood; 2) a $375.000.000 appropriation backed by Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan of Colorado, Virginia-born Harvardman, old-time reformer, Bull Mooser, Anti-Saloon Leaguer, longtime (1917-28) Tariff Commissioner. Having no stake in the proceedings, the rest of the committee went home for the holidays, leaving Senators La Follette and Costigan to prepare what amounted to a record...
...armored car are alike in pursuing their objects fast, noisily, and "efficiently." After all, aside from aims and standards, the successful criminal represents much that is worthy per se: certainty as to goal and attainment through careful planning; not to mention the acquisition of a competence and a certain Robin-Hood glamor and daring...