Word: steals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain type of newspaper the ability to guess shrewdly is almost as great a necessity as membership in the Associated Press. To such papers a guess, if backed by proper attendant circumstances in fact, will create a sensation, will steal a march upon rival papers, and will attract more pennies into the strong box. And, after all, it may be true! Who knows...
...University nine wound up its most disastrous week of the season Saturday by losing to Brown at Providence for the second time in two days. Friday Hammond saved a shut-out by a clean steal of home; Saturday no Harvard men got even as far as third base, Consequently Brown was a victor...
...three-thirty in the afternoon, the former Governor of Indiana and one Robert Lambert, 23, convicted of conspiracy to steal automobiles, were en route for Atlanta penitentiary...
...time of the Turco-Russian War, the Post appeared to be stealing News despatches. The News printed a despatch concerning a riot in Servia and in the despatch were some Servian words. The Post printed it and the next day the News published a translation: "The McMullens' (publishers of the Post) will steal this sure." Within a couple of years Lawson was able to buy out the Post. In 1881 he founded The Morning News, later called The Chicago Record, later merged into the Record-Herald and finally sold to Hearst to become The Herald and Examiner...
...game opened auspiciously for the 1927 team, when Bennett, the second man up, smashed a triple into center field but he never got farther than third base. In the next inning, the schoolboys used two bases on balls, a double steal and Norton's single to score two runs, and from then on kept the lead...