Word: vault
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Milt Green will be back in uniform to make two or three places secure. Eddie Farrell has entered Emile Dubiel in four events: the pole vault, broad jump, high jump, and javelin, and he could place in two of them...
...liquor. In Rettich's Warwick house the raiders scraped some whitewash off a brick pillar in the cellar, found and turned a key. A great slab of concrete rose quietly out of the floor, opening the way to a subcellar. Steps led from the subcellar to a huge vault in which were found three machine guns, 25 Winchester rifles, pistols, much ammunition...
Under a flagstone walk the searchers found a metal box containing some $9,000 of the Fall River robbery cash, plus a sugar bag crammed with nickels. On the walls of the hidden vault they found stains which looked like blood. From under the veranda they raked some bones which they thought were human. Under the kitchen floor they found $10,000 more of the Fall River money...
...crime addicts, much of the grue went out of the case when a State chemist reported that the vault stains had not been made by blood, that the bones were from roast beef and had probably been dragged under the veranda...
Another early fascination of Dr. Hoffman's was throwing stones at lead coffins in the vault of the Castle of Varel, in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Germany, where he was born...