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Word: breaker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dave Hedberg, with two firsts, had to defeat Bruin record-breaker Ralph Brisco in both events to become the Crimson's most prolific point-producer. Hedberg outswam Brisco in both the 50-yard and the 100-yard freestyle...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Varsity, '55 Swimmers Top Bruins | 2/14/1952 | See Source »

...conscience and his humor are always breaking the surface of convention. This unobtrusive cleric, when teaching at a seminary, left the high table to sit with the students, in protest at the inferior food they were getting. That is Knox, a modest and conscientious breaker of the peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Feb. 11, 1952 | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

Cliff Blair will be the man to watch in the field events. The Terrier star has been boomed as a possible world's 35 pound weight record breaker. Blair made several tosses in the past week close to the world's record, but probably won't round into form for a couple of more weeks. Blair will be backed by Irv Black and Jim Lang, both of whom have thrown over 50 feet...

Author: By George S. Abrams, | Title: Crimson Runners Favored Against Strong B.U. Team | 12/15/1951 | See Source »

HANOVER, N.H. Saturday, Oct. 27--A disputed safety early in the first period gave the Dartmouth freshman eleven a 2 to 0 victory over the Yardlings here today. Brilliant on the defense, the freshmen outplayed the Indians for most of the game, and called the loss a "heart-breaker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fluke Safety by '55 Indians Topples Yardling Eleven, 2-0 | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...been a suffragette, a temperance worker, a Socialist, a fiery fighter in lost causes in the half-forgotten day of pale little mine breaker-boys and vicious sweatshops. She had been arrested 36 times, from coast to coast. She had been an intimate of Eugene Debs, had helped Upton Sinclair investigate the horrors of Chicago's stockyards, which he dramatized in his novel, The Jungle. She saw the Pennsylvania anthracite strike of 1902, the great Michigan copper strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Old-Fashioned Radical | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

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