Word: break
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other railroad shops, and the western world to which the railroads ran, were like. He got as far as Salt Lake City, where he took a job in the Rio Grande & Western roundhouse. He got married and began studying in the International Correspondence School. Soon came his first big "break," the blown-out cylinder head, now famed among Chrysler admirers, which he and a helper mended in time to send the mail-train out on schedule...
...athletes who have brought their reputations to professional sport, particularly to boxing and baseball, is large, and the list of failures among these "college guys" almost as extensive. Almost universally, these failures have been hastened by unpopularity, and generally the attitude of the customers which, after all, makes or break a professional sportsman, has been ascribed to prejudice against the college man as such...
...trimotored Fokker army transport flew at 80 m. p. h., a light refueling plane hovered above her and pumped down gasoline and oil through hoses, dropped food with a rope. The preliminary test worked. So the Fokker and a refueling plane set out for Los Angeles where the break-down tests of men or motors will take place. The name of the Fokker is whimsically Question Mark...
With Edward of Wales safe home from Africa and "present in the Kingdom," as head of the Crown Council, the Empire waited, last week, for Death to strike George V or pass him by. Whatever the event there would be no slightest break in that splendrous super-human continuity which endures, not the King but the Crown...
...Henry D. Perky, a dyspeptic lawyer, was trying a lawsuit in a small Nebraska town. Breakfasting one morning at the community's only hotel, Lawyer Perky noticed a fellow breakfaster eating what looked like a saucer of whole wheat grain. He would take a large spoon and break up the cooked whole wheat, add milk and cream, and consume. Curious, Lawyer Perky asked questions...