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Word: breakers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Andover and Harvard, hold up the right side of the forward line. But the key to the whole situation lies in the half-back line, manned this year by John Dorman, Frank Vincent, and Ted Roosevelt. Dorman is a determined, untiring worker. He is a feeder of the forwards, breaker-up of the opposing front line, and the most eager man to tackle trouble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/16/1934 | See Source »

...idle toy, the Westinghouse device serves industry as a delicate circuit breaker for aluminum welding, as a mercury vapor lamp for producing stroboscopic light by which to inspect revolving parts. A very fast series of flashes illuminates the part at the same point of every revolution, and thus, because of persistence of vision in the human eye, the part appears to be standing still. Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have used mercury vapor stroboscopes in connection with a super-fast camera to record the impact of a golf club with the ball, the splash of a drop of milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stop-Light | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...with Boris to the gold-domed Alexander Nevski Cathedral to honor Saint Cyril who helped to invent the Cyrillic (Modified Greek) alphabet. All in a row before the cathedral stood the Cabinet of the new Premier, Kimon Gueorguieff. Crowds regarded the Cabinet coolly, but a roar like a rolling breaker followed the progress of the Tsar and his Queen from the palace to the cathedral and back again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Cakes & Opium | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...name in every event except the dive and breaststroke, while the Terrier star will be limited to just three events. Silverman, the other outstanding B.U. natator, may give some trouble to Walter S. White '36, Leventritt's running mate in the breaststroke, but should not threaten the Crimson record-breaker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Swimmers Confident Of Swift Ducking For B.U. | 1/26/1934 | See Source »

...painless penalism pay as large returns as the idealists would like us to believe? Anyone reading in the newspapers of football games in which notorious gangsters and murderers play of sunny autumn afternoons, may well be led to wonder. Of course, if there is a chance that the law-breaker will reform, once shown the error of his ways, the state ought spare nothing to show them to him. But in a country where a large portion of crime is committed by mental defectives, repeaters, and good business men like the famous Al Capone, there seems to be much unwarranted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHINTZ CURTAINS | 12/9/1933 | See Source »

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