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Word: robs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Originally, the University delegation was just the "regional stimulator" of the project, Goodloe explained, but at the request of NSA vice-president Rob West the group agreed to take over the national project...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard NSA Gets Big Role In DP Project | 11/16/1948 | See Source »

...What should I do: cancel my subscription or go out and rob a bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 30, 1948 | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...explains to Poole that the triumph of his lord was assured by the rise of two doctrines during the pre-atom era: "Progress and Nationalism . . . the theory that Utopia lies just ahead and that, since ideal ends justify the most abominable means, it is your privilege and duty to rob, swindle, torture, enslave and murder . . . [and] the theory that the state you happen to be subject to is the only true god . . . and that every conflict over prestige, power or money is a crusade for the Good, the True and the Beautiful . . . The longer you study modern history," concludes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Devil & the Deep Blue Huxley | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...last the Communist New York Daily Worker's Rob F. Hall went to the rescue by asking Wallace to discuss "progressive capitalism." After that, wrote Pegler, "the incident dissolved in a cloud of Oriental incense and a faint, distant tinkle of Chinese gongs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Question! Question! | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Keys & a Stone. Ch'ih Pai-shih has many fears. One is that people might stop ordering his paintings, and that he will be forced into the streets to peddle them himself. Another is that someone will rob him, and that he must keep all his paints and possessions always locked up, carrying the keys around with him on a rope about his waist. With such worries, and 50 relatives, and a whole year - and thousands of square feet - of orders to fill, there was little peace last week for Ch'ih Pai-shih. Once in a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paintings by the Foot | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

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