Word: break
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this generation to go back to the helter-skelter method of having families is like crying for the moon." He could find no evidence of physical or moral harm from the practice of birth control, nor did he have any respect for "gloomy forebodings as to the break-up of family life...
Tatlock Would Break Tutorials...
...taking a longer space to say nothing than the style of any other one of the similarly accomplished Harvard correspondents. On some mornings when the official spokesman of the H.A.A. has been especially vague and Hapgood's football story has been exceptionally long. Dick has been known to break down and tearfully confess that, long as the story was, it had been cut mercilessly by the Herald copy editors...
...club is setting a precedent this year by running its play in Cambridge on four consecutive nights. There has formerly been a break of one evening in the Brattle Hall performances, but the inability of the club last spring to meet the demand for tickets for its presentation of "The Taming of the Shrew" in modern dress has warranted the new policy...
...ambition of most motor racers is to open a motor repair or accessory shop when they break down physically. Albert Champion, shrewd and foreseeing, abandoned racing while he still was healthy. He imported spark plugs and sold them to the then small and experimenting U. S. motor manufacturers. Twenty years ago he began a small factory in Boston to make them himself. William Crapo Durant, planning to organize General Motors, built a factory with him at Flint, Mich., and the fame of Albert Champion, racer, faded behind the greater fame of his initials which trademarked the spark plugs he made...