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Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wherever he alights on his speaking tour around the country, a long red carpet is rolled out for him. When he finishes, the audience sings the new national anthem Indonesia Raja. The tune is almost a direct steal from Boola, Boola; the refrain starts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Ir. | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...record started at the age of four, when she began to steal. She spent 15 years in reform schools and prisons. She had been thrown out of bordellos for injuring patrons, had hustled outside Army camps, boasted two murders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Kill or Cure | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...first book review was J. G. Whittier's report (favorable) on Longfellow's Evangeline. Willis and Morris crammed down the throats of "the upper 10,000" the new works of De Quincey, Swinburne, Leigh Hunt, Victor Hugo, Balzac, George Sand and anyone else they could buy or steal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dickens, Dali & Others | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...young things and stadium cowboys, this afternoon's glory will rest little with the gridiron maneuvers of Dick Harlow's super-eleven. Tops in the country and the College's best ever, it's the University's Band--puffed to 120-piece size for the Bulldog--which promises to steal the Big Show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Best in East" Plays Today | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

Memo Pad. In The Bronx, William Davenport tried to steal two nude statuettes, explained in court: "They reminded me of my girl friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 4, 1946 | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

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