Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin a 27-year-old woman was beheaded for snatching another woman's purse. Execution for such trivial offenses was decreed to help stop the flow of stolen ration cards into the hands of speculators...
...news of other learned societies, see SCIENCE. †The famed West Virginia-Kentucky feud, which began with either1) an elopement or 2) a stolen pig shortly after the Civil War, reached a climax battle 20 years ago (47 killed, 100 wounded). *At the bottom of the scroll, the President hedged: "Valid if said Watson is a full-blooded Seminole Indian. I think he is." *Not to be confused with the Dalai Lama, temporal ruler of Tibet. The Panchen Lama is Tibet's spiritual ruler...
...police found the killers in a nearby areaway, throwing into the bonfire their knives, masks and some stolen report cards. One was booked for homicide, the other for juvenile delinquency. The sociological background...
...suspicion on such occasions is not cricket.) But no departing visitor had a suspicious bulge. At 5 o'clock, in an atmosphere of tense frustration, the museum closed its massive doors. At week's end, Metropolitan Director Francis Henry Taylor, having issued 950 handbills describing the stolen picture for art dealers, police, and other museums, left for Chicago to attend a meeting of museum directors...
...theft was only the third from the Metropolitan since it opened its doors in 1872. Last theft was in 1927 when three miniatures were stolen. The pictures were later found stuffed down a drain- minus their gold frames. Thefts of art works from museums are rare, because such goods are virtually unmarketable. Most museum thieves are psychopaths or fanatical art-lovers. Among recent U.S. art robberies, most sensational was the Brooklyn Museum's loss of ten old masters at one blow, in 1933. The Brooklyn thieves hid in the museum until late at night, skillfully lowered the paintings...