Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week, tagging along like a sinister shadow, came corresponding reports that crime as well as bomb fire was booming in London. The crimes were integrally tied up with the war.* Looting, which involved 140 people in September, rose in October to 250 cases, was still climbing, outnumbering other crimes five...
...mercy murder: A. R. P. Worker James Miller, 45, garroted his mother, Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Miller, 74, to spare her further misery in sleeping crouched on tube steps. He explained: "I did it to save her being dragged around to the shelters. She was suffering." While food-profiteering also rose, a new racket appeared, as nifty as it was heartless. Early in the day, racketeers' stooges plant bundles of rags to simulate blanket rolls along 20 or more sleeping spaces in tube stations, patrol them till the evening rush. Likely prospects are then approached with a whispered...
...capitals of the nation today. The Golden Gophers are favored to bottle up Tom Harmon; the S.M.U. Mustangs will once more prove the rule that no team can ever win the Southwestern title two years in a row by upsetting the Texas Aggies; and Washington will win the Western Rose Bowl assignment by tripping up the Stanford Indians...
Norman Thomas gained 70 votes in the late balloting, bringing his total in the University to 177. A substantial block of these votes came from the Faculty and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Browder's backing rose to 50 on the strength of support from the same groups...
...belt, was a bit uncertain on his blocking and shoved George Helden into the breach at the end of the first quarter. The MacKinney experiment will be continued this week, however, in the hope of finding a way to set the ball moving. . . . Princeton tried a pass play with Rose throwing the ball for the first time this year. Rose started off to his left and was about to throw a left-handed pass to two unguarded mates deep in Harvard territory when Joe Koufman nipped him from the rear and saved...