Word: safes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, beribboned and jaunty, fresh off the boat from Japan, Colonel Murray had another, smaller key. He surrendered it to questioning Customs men. It unlocked his safe-deposit box-and out tumbled a cache of more than 500 diamonds, worth $200.,000, which he had smuggled in last year. They were, he claimed, "legitimate loot." That had an unfortunate sound; he changed it to "legitimate souvenirs." When he first went to Japan, he said, "there were jewels and precious metals hidden all over the country-diamonds by the bucketful...
...three days of confusion, the Chinese dollar rocketed from 10,000-to-1 U.S. dollar, to 14,000-to-1. One day this week a foreigner walked down a crowded Shanghai street carrying Chinese currency, bundied but unwrapped, up to his chin like kindling wood. He was unguarded-and safe...
Although it is not altogether accurate to place the ceiling on need at the $4000 income level, it is safe to say that the utility of the scholarships diminishes above that point. With President Conant's statement of intention in mind, it becomes increasingly clear that intellectually and morally capable students of the underprivileged groups must be given greater opportunity to take their places at Harvard under the plans that were originally sketched out for this group. This means not the curtailment of the smaller and honorary national scholarships (the grants are scaled according to need) so much...
...whose 14 points were high for the evening's work, and center Bob Pratt brought the Tigers up to a ten-point deficit, 37 to 27, going into the fourth quarter. But a set-shot by Hauphtfuhrer and two lay-ups by Mariaschin sent the Cantabs back into a safe 16-point lead...
With the 400 freestyle notched, by German, Ulen could afford to exercise his reserves in the 400-yard relay, tossing it with his safe numerical lead to, the opposition...