Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...becoming more and more dependent on tutors and instructors. As the gap widens between lecturer and student the tutor's position becomes increasingly important and increasingly difficult. And at the same time it becomes always more impossible for the tutor to discharge his teaching functions in odd moments stolen from research. Unless the future is to see more emphasis placed upon instruction than on publication, unless tutors, in particular, are to find effective teaching as good a guarantee of promotion as rapid book production, the value of Harvard's educational efforts is in danger of suffering serious decline...
...assailant who struck Dr. George Kovacs, chiropodist, of 125, Tremont Street over the head and dashed from his office at 5 o'clock last Friday, left behind him an overcoat which contained the plans for the new Harvard Gymnasium, it was learned last night at Police Headquarters. He had stolen the plans, which were in the form of blue-prints, from a contractor on the Wellesley-Boston train last Wednesday morning, and was in the Doctor's office having his foot treated when the assault was committed. A warrant has been sworn out for the criminal, but the police have...
...famed virtuoso, wanted it more than any of the women who wanted him, and he stole it. Anita, meanwhile, a fattish prima donna, went from Max, the queasy composer who took his inspiration glacier-gazing, to Daniello, back to Max again. She it was, unwittingly, who escaped with the stolen violin concealed in her banjo case. But Jonny followed her to Switzerland for it, jumped in her window one morning, recovered it and had it for his jazz until Daniello recognized its tone over the radio and set the police on him. Desperately then Jonny tried for escape. He bought...
...other words, a number of Representatives in Congress today are occupying STOLEN SEATS. Their occupancy of seats to which they are no longer entitled under the Constitution makes of the Lower House of Congress AN UTTERLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL BODY...
...loot of each Ever Loyal is contributed to a fund from which lawyers are richly fed when Club members get arrested. Every so often despatches tell that the Ever Loyals have held another unexpected, cataclysmic midnight convention in Berlin. Always on these occasions they appear in hired or stolen tuxedoes, cruising and boozing in a fleet of taxicabs. One night last week on Berlin's Broadway-the garish and blazing Kurfursten-Damm-cruising crooks met honest, conventioning Hamburgers, quarreled, fought with guns and knives. It appeared that the shooting and knifing had begun-as such things will-with...