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Word: stole (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thieves stole the limousine of Governor Oliver Max Gardner of North Carolina from the driveway of the executive mansion, drove it away-License No. 1, glittering State seal & all-in the direction of Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 30, 1931 | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...Grand Rapids, Mich.. thieves stole Jacob Popowicz's pet rabbit, returned another night and took his silverware. Third time they came Jacob Popowicz had prepared for them. He left them, and they seized a hive of bees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Stamps | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

...Angeles, a thief climbed the fence of R. L. Bowman's yard and stole nine imported skunks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 9, 1931 | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...Army-Yale game two years ago, a spry little Yale sophomore with a crooked nose, slightly bowed legs and a crest of stubborn dark hair stole the thunder of Army's famed Christian Cagle, made all three touchdowns that won for Yale (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929). This year, still Yale's greatest back, small Albert J. ("Albie") Booth is also Yale's captain. Although he has seldom been injured, and never seriously, he spends a good part of the time sitting on the bench, wearing an oversized woolen hood which makes him look like a gnome, while Yale's other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 9, 1931 | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...Chicago, a thief stole 350 shoes from the automobile of Charles Weiss, shoe salesman. All were for the left foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 19, 1931 | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

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