Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rumors circulating about last night, fixed the blame on a group of Graduate School students, who recently successfully managed to remove a machine gun and a ten-foot R.O.T.C. banner at a recent ball, while others attributed the theft to Yale men seeking revenge for the famous Yale fence robbery, or a local organization seeking to enlarge its bell equipment...
Although the theft was not discovered until Monday morning, it was concluded that the vandals gained admittance to Memorial Hall during the Sunday Chapel services at 11 o'clock, found the dark, winding stairs to the belfry, and in some inconceivable way, scaled up to the bell...
Last week, tired and jaded, Explorer Haardt and his 27 men had done with mountains, deserts and bandits for a while. Last obstacle had been the theft by Mongolian bandits of tractor bands for the cars. On worn bands the cars carried the party to clean clothes, bath tubs, decorations* and a good long rest. But for intrepid Explorer Petropavlosky, Peiping meant a bride. He had met Miss Barbara Rose Schurman while her father, Cornell's Jacob Gould Schurman, was Minister to China, but to marry her he had waited until the completion of the expedition, for which...
...department therefore desires that commanding officers do not bring to trial by summary court martial petty cases where it is evident that the accused is not at heart a thief. The department desires to draw a sharp distinction between theft and petty pilfering committed in the nature of boyish pranks...
After being the guest of honor at a royal Christmas dinner in the Wonderland of Leverett House, the sacred and revered silver rabbit with his red ribbon vanished completely. What hare-brained knave committed the theft or what his motives were in taking the stuffed specimen of "lepus timidus," who with his younger brothers decorates the coat of arms of the house of Leverett, is a mystery which even the Red Queen would not be able to solve...