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Homework. In Sidney, Neb., Merle E. Faulkner explained to police how he happened to be carrying an uprooted parking meter on his shoulder: he had been having a little trouble pilfering its hoard and had decided to work on it at his leisure elsewhere.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Harvard has always used wooden goal posts except for one game about 14 years ago when metal posts were tried. The steel markers were uprooted in four or five hours, carried over the bridge, and dumped into the river. One of the posts got firmly entrenched in an upright position...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 11/12/1949 | See Source »

The Dana Palmer house ain't where it used to be. Four years ago the yellow clapboard building stood right in the middle of what is now Lamont. By the spring of 1947 it had been uprooted and towed across Quiney Street to its present spot between the Union and...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/8/1949 | See Source »

¶ Don Sinnott, 18, smashed seats, uprooted radiators and unhinged doors in a Los Angeles theater, to prove that he deserved a part in a new Superman film.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS .& MORALS: Americana, Mar. 28, 1949 | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

"In the center of the town, they overturned a small commercial van and caused damage of serious consequence to the business of its owner-driver, who was in it at the time. They also uprooted a traffic beacon and thrust it through the glass door of a shop. Near Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ragtime Hooligans | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

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