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Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four nations concerned, only France, the legal if doubtful owner, entered a formal diplomatic complaint. The Japanese, who can keep silence as well as steal like gypsies, said little when France complained about the snatch of Hainan in February. They were mum this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Gypsy Trick | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Next? Where Germany would next plant her military boots was the next question. The Nazi majority in Lithuanian Memel were agitating last week for a "home in the Reich," but that was small change. More significant was the Nazis' tolerance in letting Hungary grab Carpatho-Ukraine. A smart stealing-casino player does not mind an opponent's getting a trick if he has the card that will steal his whole pile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Surprise? Surprise? | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...figures tying the chopped tree to their rickety automobile. With no word of warning, outraged old "Santa Claus" fired twice. William Rousseau, 37, fell dead. His wife, Minnie, 29, weltered in her blood. Explained old William Case, calmly: "The tree was theirs for the asking. . . . But when people steal them it's different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Christmas Killings | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...guffaws and cries of: "Here are some cheap Christmas presents. Get yours early!" Not all German Aryans countenanced this depravity. Said an Aryan Berlin housewife despondently as she watched Aryan children making off with the contents of a Jewish shop: "So that is how they teach our children to steal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: These Individuals! | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Without fanfare, well aware that it could not steal the spotlight from U. S. football even if its players wore hoop skirts and plumed hats, last week major-league hockey quietly sidled into the North American sport scene at Chicago and Toronto. At Chicago the World-Champion Chicago Blackhawks auspiciously began their five-month defense of the Stanley Cup by trouncing the New York Americans, 6-to-1. At Toronto the powerful Boston Bruins, generally regarded the best team last year despite Chicago's winning the title, nosed out the Toronto Maple Leafs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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