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Word: robs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Timothy Dwight staged a sustained third-period drive to nose out Leverett 7 to 0 in a slow game which found the Bunnies slightly outclassed by their Eli opponents. Rob Bast broke loose from the 30 to romp over the the TD touchdown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Colleges Clinch Four, Tie Two of Seven Contests | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

...about the first three scenes which is not obscured by the artificial recapitulation of the whole background of the characters in the opening minutes of the play, nor by the precipitate introduction of the battle over the soul of Borkman's son between his aunt and his mother. What rob these scenes of any real force are nor Ibsen's crudities, but the mistakes made by Eva LeGallienne in her several capacities of director, producer, translator and actress. First of all, she has chosen to reduce the play to a five-scene, non-stop performance, a choice which only serves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 10/25/1946 | See Source »

...Compton, the vivid Fermi, the deceptively rustic Bush, their faces subtly haggard in remembrance of the moments they are reenacting; and there are the faces of Oppenheimer and Rabi, a few minutes before all hell breaks loose in the New Mexican desert, with the shaky exchange-Oppenheimer: "This time, Rob the stakes are really high." Rabi:"It's going to work all right, Robert, and I'm sure we won't be sorry for it." There is Harvard's Conant, stating that the use of atomic power for planes and autos is scientifically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC AGE: Birthday Party | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...Suzanne Degnan; of having shot and stabbed Mrs. Josephine Ross, a Chicago widow, when she surprised him looting her apartment. The papers declared that he had made an oral confession of all three murders while lulled by a "truth serum" (sodium pentothal). Bill insisted that he could neither rob nor murder. He blamed it all on a fellow named George Murman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Bill & George | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

Birth of Bedlam. Strong men and weak, good & bad-from Mormon Elder Sam Brannan to Roger Dearborn Lapham-have tried with varying success to run or rob or manage "The City" since it began life as Yerba Buena 112 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: City I Love | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

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