Word: break
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sixty-five hr.. 31 min.; by Johann Risticz & Wilheim Zimmerman, Germans, 1928. The Question Mark, in one sense, could not break this record. The Germans never re-fuelled...
...attractions for his houses, had been thinking of production when he wrote the slogan that afterward became the name of his company?the Famous Players. Gambling all his money on his belief that there would be profits in advertising cinema actors like "legit" actors, he fought to break the trust. While his wife sold her jewels and friends loaned their savings, he moved into a new apartment, bought an automobile, rented offices in the Times Building, Manhattan, and presented Sarah Bernhardt in Queen Elizabeth at the Lyceum Theatre...
Brother Bramwell was his father's chief of staff in 1896 when the first break took place. A brother, Ballington Booth, was in charge in the U. S. With his wife he was very successful, made many friends. Nonetheless Father William Booth abruptly ordered him home. Brother Ballington refused to obey, resigned from the Army, organized the Volunteers of America in rebellion. The Volunteers are still in existence, although not at all powerful...
Upton, still a marked man, was unable to score from the floor, while Rex and Wenner ran up the score between them. Farrell showed marked improvement over his form in the Worcester contest, but lacked the speed to break away from the Middlebury guards, who worked together in splendid coordination...
...Freshmen, the match this afternoon will be the most important to date for it will break the tie between the two leaders of the C division On account of pressing circumstances one match, that between G. R. Clark '32 and Russell Davis '21, was played off yesterday. The latter won by a score...