Word: rug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...period between 9 and 10:15 Thursday night, thieves slipped into Dunster Small Common Room and left with a large oriental rug, on loan from Fogg Muscum, that had completely covered the floor...
Night superintendent James Brennan, on his 10:15 p.m. rounds, discovered the rug was missing and immediately called University police, who turned the case over to the Cambridge Police Department...
...muzzle was thrust through the front living room window; the crash of falling glass was drowned out by a double blast. A spray of lead pellets the size of peas ripped Vic Reuther's head and right shoulder-his shattered eyeglasses and his dental bridge flew to the rug ten feet away. Slowly he rose, clutched his bleeding face, then fell to the floor crying, "Call an ambulance." Sophie Reuther called police, then rushed screaming into the dark, empty street...
When an airliner crashes, the airlines and manufacturers scramble to find out what happened and why, but they seldom accuse each other in public of laxity. They prefer to sweep the accident under the rug and out of sight. Last week Croil Hunter, boss of Northwest Airlines, took another course. His airline sued the Glenn L. Martin Co. for $725,000, charging that five Martin 2023 which it had bought in 1947-48 were defective. The wing of one of them, said Northwest, "tore off in flight," during a storm, killing 36 passengers and crewmen near Winona, Minn., last...
...Going to the Feelies this evening, Henry? I hear the new one at the Alhambra is first-rate. There's a love scene on a bearskin rug; they say it's marvelous...