Word: stoled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johnson, Yale has the man most likely to break Johnny Welsmuller's record for the 100-yard free style event, and a performer who could well equal or better the amazing performance of Jack Medica of Washington who stole the show the last time the Indoor Athletic Pool was the scene of the swim events. The Yale 400 yard medley relay quartet will also aim to break its own world's record of 3:26:6, set against Brown this season...
...when a drunken brawl over a woman reached the courts. Then he entered the Nazi movement, looked about for a chance to rise. A chance appeared-blackmail. Learning that a Prussian official named Koch was in correspondence with the dissident Gregor Strasser, Heydrich courted Koch's wife and stole the letters. Armed with these, he extorted a recommendation to Himmler, who gave him a post with the Munich Elite Guard. Thereafter his rise was rapid. Just before the war insiders estimated that Heydrich grafted $150,000 a year, spent it mostly on women, horses, a twelve-room apartment...
Salve. In Indianapolis, a burglar stole $41, left a note: "Please forgive me. Some day you'll be repaid with interest." In Wilson, N.C., a woman approached the manager of a store, told him: "Five years ago I stole two rings and another article from your store that amounted to 25? in all. I want to go to Heaven." She handed him a quarter...
Undefeated Winthrop kept rolling in the House Hockey League last night, chalking up a 5 to 4 victory over a Dunster sextet at the Boston Skating Club, but it was Coach Clark Hodder who stole the show, scoring Dormitory's two goals, which enabled it to down unbeaten Dudley in a non-league affair, 2 to 1. In other league contests, Eliot nosed out Lowell 3 to 2, and Adams gave Kirkland a 7 to 2 going-over...
...Malayan dress, or just their underwear. They forced natives to lead them through tangled byways. They pushed about with high, merry tail, like hunting dogs, sniffing out coveys of defenders. With their bare hands they made rafts of logs and rode down rivers such as the Perak. They stole bicycles, food and shoes from Malayans and Chinese, went forward faster, stronger and better shod than before. They grabbed barges at Penang, skimmed the coast and tried to make landings below British positions. They climbed in the trees and dropped, like monkeys, on passing patrols. Every hardship which a hungry animal...