Word: ropes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempted theft occurred on August 19, Police believe the burglar climbed down a tope from the roof to a window and broke into the Widener room. He succeeded in removing the bible from its display case but tell while climbing down the rope to the ground...
...succeeded in foiling the library's alarm system, and removing the Bible from its plastic display case, but appears to have slipped when he attempted to climb down a rope hanging out of a library window. He fell some 40 feet to the ground outside...
Police believe that the suspect hid in the library until after closing time on August 19, then went on the roof, climbed down the rope to a window and broke into the Widener Room where the Bible is kept. He then removed the Bible from the display case and was attempting to climb further down the rope to the ground outside when he fell...
...looks like a professional job all right, in the fact that he came down the rope." University Police Chief Robert Tonis said, "But it doesn't look very professional that he fell...
...absorbed, not annoyed, by flies and ants. His endless hours of watching in the fields and at the edge of the sea were rewarded by such wonders as the sight of two snails mating. Sidling up side-to-side, each fired out a small white dart on a slender rope that thunked into the side of the other; then some internal winch slowly pulled the ropes in until the snails were lashed tightly together for 15 minutes of lovemaking...