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Word: sixings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ordinarily, the Statute of Limitations prevents prosecution for a crime six years after it is perpetrated, but the hitch is that the Statute doesn't "run" for time spent outside the state. His Majesty, now in retirement in British Columbia, might yet end his days sticking wads of Blackjack under a cot in Charlestown State Prison...

Author: By David G. Braaten, | Title: Author - Thief Lists $100,000 Harvard Haul | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

Five single and six semi-detached houses form the balance of the development will be completed about February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Botanic Garden House Opens Nov. 1 | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

...Six other candidates were tonted by the wise men ducted is the story to the left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Touts Choose MacArthur and Clay for Degrees | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

...Blonde from Bashful Bend" is a merry and colorful concoction of topflight stars, tuneful song hits, grand production, and youthful romance spiced with the Preston Sturges brand of roaring comedy. La Grable displays all of her luscious charms in the role of a trigger-happy heroine with the biggest six-shooters in the West . . . --From a Metropolitan Theatre Press Release

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 6/2/1949 | See Source »

...Criminal Mind. In Chula Vista, Calif., Mrs. Vincent Stewart told police that the six pairs of shoes stolen from her home were all returned the following day, newly shined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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