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Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...running strong, was the Purge-marked incumbent, conservative Senator Walter Franklin George. Before the later, urban returns showed the election's true trend, Candidate Talmadge & friends began to celebrate loudly. "The only way George or his supporters could carry Georgia," Mr. Talmadge announced, "would be to buy or steal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIMARIES: It's a Bust | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...enemy what must be the result if they begin war? Pressure for the repeal of the Neutrality Act has been tremendous, and Congress should act upon that demand at its first chance. Then Germany and its cohorts will have been warned that American will not watch one man steal, without chastisement, the whole of Central Europe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WELL, AMERICA! | 9/24/1938 | See Source »

When Ed Collins came out of church his two pals were waiting for him. They took him to a lumber yard, made him steal two stout boards. Then they drove him to the edge of town, to a lonely spot near the County Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Little Christ | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...bolts in the wall for cots. Walls & floor are rough concrete, doors sheet steel, with small ventilating holes at the bottom. Three windows and several small roof outlets comprise the ventilation of the building. Across a two-foot corridor from the cells the wall is lined with steal radiators, which can provide several times the amount of radiation necessary to warm such a small building in winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Parboiled Prisoners | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...paraphrase of Democratic Pressagent Charles Michelson's remark of last fortnight that "duty" might compel Franklin Roosevelt to run again (TIME, Aug. 15). While the President in uniform stands contentedly on the second (term) sack and a harassed elephant pitcher stands afraid to pitch lest the runner steal third, Mr. Manager Michelson runs out on the diamond shouting: "Aw quit worryin' about him! He ain't gonna run-that is he ain't unless he's forced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Head Examined | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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