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...right of the door marked "Crime Prevention Bureau." Sergeant Cosgrove of the Gaming Squad, who had led the investigation and the round-up, entered a few minutes after we did. It was easy getting information that day. The Sergeant was highly pleased with himself and his inspectors, for two-and-one-half months of digging had finally paid...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Police Raid | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

According to spokesmen for the MTA, this extension has been under consideration since before 1945. The survey now under way will probably require two-and-one-half months for completion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MTA Plans Vast Subway Building Near Harvard Sq. | 11/28/1952 | See Source »

After Bursk's second-round pin, 130-pound Bud Adams outfought his opponent for two-and-one-half stanzas, and finally pinned him at 7:23 with a reverse-nelson and body-bar-hold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matmen Strangle Terriers for 2nd Straight Victory | 12/13/1951 | See Source »

...Two-and-one-half feet behind Howard was Bill Bacon of Lowell, followed by John Walsh of Winthrop, Don Kaplan of Eliot, and Bill Mobrasten of Lowell. Kaplan also won the discuss at 123 feet, 3 inches and was fifth in the javelin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacons Pace Field in House Track | 5/23/1950 | See Source »

...quarters. Mechanized units set tled down for the winter at Turnu-Māgurele near the Bulgarian border, his toric jumping-off-place of the barbaric hordes who in past ages surged through the Rhodope Mountain passes into the fertile plains of Grecian Thrace. Across the Danube and two-and-one-half miles of marshland that separate Rumanian Giurgiu from Bulgarian Russe, Nazi engineers began to construct a gigantic ferry and pontoon bridge capable of supporting the heaviest equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, STRATEGY: Mist & Mystery | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

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