Word: stoles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bench with a majesty which even Bishop Freeman had to admire. First came a series of decisions on cases previously argued. Only one that interested the spectators was a case challenging the right of the Government to jail a man for "obstructing interstate commerce" in that he stole a bale of cotton from a Government bonded warehouse. The Court gave no answer in the matter of law but it did agree unanimously that the man's conviction should be set aside because he had not been properly indicted. Decisions completed. Chief Justice Hughes ordered the clerk to give...
...that matter the late, great "Lawrence of Arabia" who died in a motoring accident (TIME. May 27), was also a woman-hater, was also annoyed by women cyclists, and also used to tear over the roads. Five months ago Mortimer started suiting action to his words. In succession he stole several cars, all of which he used briefly in the same way. Overtaking a woman pedaling along a lonely road Mortimer would bunt her off her bicycle, then back up rapidly with profuse apologies only to bunt her again, if she had managed to get to her feet. After that...
...lightening of their loads. He saw horses that fell, torn apart for food before they were killed. Pursuer and pursued mixed in a vast mass of suffering humanity, with isolated groups of French deep in Russian lines, crazed Cossacks lost among French refugees. Weary of slaughtering, Cossacks stole clothing, then gave their victims clothing they had stolen from others. Frightened at reports of an "idiotic" coup in Paris, alarmed at the lack of news, Napoleon fled with Caulaincourt across Poland and Germany to reach France ahead of news of the catastrophe. For 14 days they traveled, while Napoleon poured...
...Dear Joe: Someone stole the door off your house. The cow has been poisoned and the plaster in two rooms upstairs has fallen down. A man came and said you promised him he could have 12 quarts of peaches. I gave them to him. Did you promise him? Some people are living in your other house and won't pay rent and won't get out. Someone stole the top off the stove and broke two windows. Your cross-cut saw is gone and so is that gallon of sorghum. I'd have written sooner to tell...
...their plane into Great Slave Lake. Mr. Goodwin was almost eaten by black flies, bulldog flies, midges and mosquitoes while from a blind he filmed giant, sharp-humped wood buffalo wallowing in the dust at a water-hole. Stampeding musk oxen almost ran down a guide. And bears definitely stole the meat the party had hung for safekeeping between trees. Trophies for the American Museum: three blue Stone Mountain sheep, 200 small mammals. The prize trophies, however, will be divided with the Canadian National Museum : six white, Dlack-tailed mountain sheep of a new variety and eight dark northern...