Word: break
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...million times. . . . Senator Reed of Pennsylvania? He is not obscure. . . He made his reputation by defending Mellon. . . . And that other Republican conferee, the senior Senator from Indiana [Watson, leader of the Republican majority in the Senate]-he is not obscure. He has been in public life or trying to break into it ever since he reached his majority...
...have received special instructions from my government to declare that Chile will never break the continuity of her territory...
...Kennedy of Princeton will be the referee of the Oxford-Cambridge-Harvard-Yale track meet next month comes as another proof of the amicable relations of official Princeton and Harvard. As chairman of the Princeton Board of Athletic Control Professor Kennedy has shown time and again since the break between the two institutions that his feelings toward Harvard are most cordial. There has been no lack of good will between him and Mr. Bingham...
...obstinacy somewhere in the ranks. Half of the student bodies at Harvard and Princeton has entered college since the rupture. It seems safe to say, therefore, that the number of obstructionists among them cannot be large, and that in the new college generation now beginning all record of the break will be forgotten...
...does not depend on the length or bawdiness which always characterize its rendition. Frankie was a harlot. Johnnie was her man. But Johnnie loved Nellie Bly. So Frankie shot her man. "He was her man, but he done her wrong," explains every refrain. The verse at which singers usually break down in tears goes...