Word: stole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...3/4-mile distance of any of the Harvard crews, the Junior Varsity boat lost to Princeton by two lengths on the Charles Saturday. Half of the margin was gained by the Orange and Black when Harvard caught three crabs in the final quarter of the race. The Tigers stole a lead at the start, had about a deck at the quarter-mile, and had increased that to a full length at the mile...
Troy had a Palladium. Diomedes and Ulysses stole it. We know what happened to Troy. Boston had a Palladium, the Sacred Cod. It is or was a pine codfish, four feet eleven and a half inches long, ten inches thick at its thickest, clad in silver. It was a work of the eighteenth century. It hung happily in the old State House till 1793, when it was moved to the House of Representatives in the Bulfinch State House. In 1895, when the House emigrated to a new chamber, four messengers bore it, enfolded in the American flag...
...contest was close between Mays and W. B. Wood, Jr. '32. Mays had a batting average of 393 against Wood's 427 average but Mays stole 14 bases to Wood's three and reached first base 56 times to Wood's 52. Mays, who is now a Freshman proctor, played second base last spring, and was a member of the team for two years previously...
...Beverly Hills, Calif., thieves stole $15,000 worth of jewels and furs from the home of Benjamin Warner, father of the three Warner Brothers. In Miami Beach, Fla., Soprano Grace Moore said that $81,500 worth of her jewelry had been stolen...
...helped him to solve. Together they lugged it to Central Park. A lucky encounter with a Mr. Sweeney, street-cleaner with a yearning to play the violin, got them a D. S. C. hut to shelter them. Daytimes, Rosenberg fiddled for pennies on street corners, Mr. Otkar prowled around, stole occasional eggs. Evenings, Rosenberg taught Mr. Sweeney how to fiddle. When Mr. Otkar came back one night with Elizabeth, an idealistic prostitute, they all lived together as innocently and quarrelsomely as brothers & sister. And though Mr. Otkar's big bed was not quite big enough for all of them...