Word: entering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ordinarily, FBI operatives do not enter income tax cases until the Treasury's T-men (internal revenue secret agents) have finished their work. Supposition was that the FBI stepped in early on Boss Pendergast's case because he is not only old (66) but sick. The Administration had to hurry, to be sure and match Tom Dewey's Hines sensation with an even greater prosecution...
...they there? They are being held as ransom. With their lives they will probably pay for the lives of those who put them in prison while they negotiated surrender. . . . One might compare their lot to that of a bull, worn out by picadors, helplessly waiting for the matador to enter with a fanfare of trumpets to give it the coup de grâce. This war, which has been incredibly cruel on all sides since its commencement two-and-a-half years ago, seems likely to end in an orgy of cruelty...
...familiar gypsy trick is to enter a grocery store, wait until proprietor and clerks are occupied with important customers, then tuck turnips, garlic, apples, other staples under the ample gypsy blouse. Japan, adept at this gypsy technique, last week took advantage of France's and England's busy dickerings with Italy and Germany to slip seven small potatoes-the Spratly Islands-under her kimono...
Economics is the leading field because of an excellent tutoring staff headed by Seymour Harris, associate professor of Economics, a well stocked library on all the Social Sciences, and the large number of Economics concentrators that regularly enter the House. The eminently successful Dunster House Economics Society is a manifestation of this side of the House...
...Arizona, husky, 20-year-old ex-Lawyer Theos Bernard is the first white man to become a Tibetan Lama. In 1936 he took a Master's degree in philosophy at Columbia University (specializing in Buddhism), spent the next 16 months in India and Tibet. He was allowed to enter...