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Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...qualities to be president of Harvard College . . . . . . . What a calamity if Coolidge were to step from the national presidency up to that of Harvard College! Mr. Bartlett feels sure he is eligible. I, then, could very easily conceive why forty professors would "fold their tents like Arabs and silently steal away". Peter J. White Bove...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undergraduate Rebuttal | 10/24/1928 | See Source »

...wondering about Smith. He might--stranger things have happened--become president of Harvard. If he should I can recognize some of those forty professors who would stay on their jobs but I recognize others who I think, would "fold their cents, like the Arabs, and silently steal away." Respectfully yours, Frederick Orin Bartlett...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Old Dog" Bites | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...summer people are outdoors, have free opportunity to quarrel; commit acts of violence. In winter living becomes difficult; people steal and commit other acts against property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Weather & Crime | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...Along that riverbank a thousand miles Tattooed cannibals danced in files. . . . Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom! Boom, steal the pigmies. . . . Boom, kill the white men. . . . From the mouth of the Congo To the Mountains of the Moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Majesties to Congo | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

Benito Mussolini also said in Rome: "In vain did others try to steal the glory! I say in a voce of thunder that you, Nobile, you an Italian, wisely guided the Norge to the end of her extraordinary voyage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Crass Blasphemy | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

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