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Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...definitely unfriendly undertone came to exist between the managers and the rival army, efforts to steal were redoubled, heckling became organized, there were occasional stone throwing episodes, and older and bigger brothers and friends joined the enemy ranks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soccer Managers Enjoy Active Field Course In Child Psychology--Only One of Type in College | 10/1/1936 | See Source »

...undertaken by minor Hollywood actors, whose performances are about on a par with what is expected in a Works Progress Administration show. A reformed prostitute shoots her high-born but estranged father when he refuses to give her money for her true love, who has been forced to steal $1,000 to send his old mother to a sanatorium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 28, 1936 | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

Featuring prominently a portrait of her own little self, the much advertised "Ann Marsters' Primer for Harvard Students" began its run yesterday in the Sunday Advertiser. Replete with sage advice on the advisability of passing the swimming test, and recommending those who wish to be different not to steal the Memorial Hall clapper, Miss Marster's article succeeded in filling a rather dull page with type, and little more. A large photograph of our men "studying" showed two reading magazines, and two absorbing learning from empty loose-leaf notebook covers. And the circulation of the Advertiser in Harvard Square remained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANN MARSTERS OFFERS MUCH UNSOLICITED ADVICE CHEAP | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...Publisher McDonald (Chattanooga Free Press) hopes to steal readers on weekdays from the News (circ. 36,000), on Sundays from the Times (circ. 36,300)." (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 21, 1936 | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

Publisher McDonald hopes to steal readers on weekdays from the News (circ. 36,000), on Sundays from the Times (circ. 36,300). He declares that Chattanooga is tired of the radical policies of the News, whose Editor George Fort Milton (The Age of Hate) is notably "agin" the local power company. The Free Press is as ardently pro-Landon as the nearby Knoxville Journal, which three months ago got out of receivership with the help of Republican money. According to Publisher McDonald, he owes only $60,000 for the modern presses and equipment he has installed. Delivery of the enlarged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Chattanooga's Third | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

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