Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alfred Emanuel Smith] and all who train with him that he can not roll into the White House on a beer keg and a wine barrel, for the militant manhood and the emancipated womanhood of America will rise in the majesty of their might and smash every jog and break every bottle and roll every beer keg and every champagne barrel into the Atlantic Ocean...
...propaganda sheet called the Daily Ananias was rained down upon the Blue Forces. To break enemy morale, it stated: "Blues Poison More Wells," "Prisoners Surrender to Reds Voluntarily," "Blues Fear Red Bayonets," "Mutinous Blue Soldiers Hang Colonel...
...Literally named, the spitball has saliva applied on one side. The difference in atmospheric friction on the wet and dry sides gives the ball a queer twist or "break...
Back to his capital at Nanking went satisfied President Chiang; up to his fortress at Mukden, Manchuria, 400 miles from Harbin went the "Tiger's Cub," young Chang, after helping to break the railroad treaty concluded by his father, the late, mighty Chang Tso-lin (TIME, July 2, 1928). Both went to marshal armies against further trouble for both knew that seizure of the C. E. R. was open signal to a battle by which they hoped to crush the Russian domination of China's wealthiest region...
...York voters, waiting to see what Commissioner Whalen would do, recognized the Marlow murder as an exceedingly lucky break for Nominee Hylan, who had charged that the Rothstein case would remain a mystery so long as the present administration was in power because "too many politicians . . . were involved with Rothstein in his criminal enterprises." Nominee Hylan hinted that the Marlow case would join the Rothstein case as another unsolved murder with a political tinge. Before the week was out, Commissioner Whalen had eight persons under arrest, six as material witnesses, two as oldtime criminals, caught in a "fortified" apartment...