Word: steals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manchuria have obscured her quiet, deadly cloth war with Britain, waged with the sharp price-cutting weapon of her depreciated yen. Japan took the yen off gold two years ago (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931), has thus been able to cut her cotton textile prices unbelievably low and to steal British markets throughout the East. Last week the yen was down to 36.7% of its par gold value, while Britain's pound, though also depreciated, stood at 65% of its gold parity...
This was before germs, antisepsis and chloroform anesthesia were discovered. Doctors were often obliged to steal or buy corpses for anatomical studies. They had very little precise knowledge of what goes on within the body of the living man. Organic chemistry was just blossoming out of alchemy, with only 49 of the 92 elements recognized. Surgeon Beaumont had little beyond simple Nature to help him treat Alexis St. Martin...
Wimpole Street backed up against one of London's grisliest slums, one of whose well-organized rackets it was to steal Wimpole Street's pets and hold them for ransom. If the ransom were not quickly forthcoming, the pet's paws and head were returned to the owners in a bag. Once (in reality, three times, says Biographer Woolf in a note) Flush was so kidnapped by these racketeers. Everybody, including Mr. Browning, advised Miss Barrett to refuse to pay ransom, sacrifice Flush on the altar of law & order. Miss Barrett indignantly refused, went herself to beard...
...have always loved the stage, particularly comedy and musical comedy. When I was a kid, I used to steal money to go to the theater. Of course Thalia has made remarkable progress since I was a boy. The comedy of the caricature and the burlesque was in vogue then. Now the public demands human beings in human situations...
...hypocrite by subscribing to such a resolution." For four years he loudly mocked Herbert Hoover's attempt to bring back prosperity. A regular attendant at the annual conferences of U. S. mayors, he was in Washington last May vainly trying to beg, borrow or steal some Federal cash to help Milwaukee's unemployed. Though he talks much about the efficiency and cheapness of his city services, non-Socialists have kept him from making Milwaukee a model Socialist municipality...