Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summer, horses on Washington streets heave and collapse. Eggs are fried on the northwest corner of 14th street and Pennsylvania Avenue. Idlers gather about the Weather Bureau's kiosk 100 yards away to watch the thermometer break 100° at midafternoon. Downtown streets are virtually deserted from 11 a. m. to 4 p. m. Men-in-the-street go about in their shirt sleeves...
Moving only at the legal snailpace, Prague automobiles chugged leisurely through the streets. Raging policemen vainly tried to speed them up. Prague chauffeurs stoutly refused to break the law. Travelers missed their trains, traffic tangled in market place, stalled on bridges. The chauffeurs, enjoying themselves hugely, continued to bump slowly over the cobblestones. At nightfall gleeful Prague taxi drivers considered the old speed laws as good as repealed...
...sedans drove ground and round the Indianapolis motor speedway without stopping, reached, then far passed the airplane record. One stopped after 231 hrs. and 41 min. The other passed the 300 hour mark, kept going. Drivers (who worked in shifts) included Aviators Kelly and Robbins, who thus helped to break on land the record they had made...
Member Alfred S. Austrian, able attorney, was not-so-good golfer. He could barely "break" (score less than) 100. He offered Club Professional George A. Neill $10,000 if he could teach him to break 80. Scot Neill set to work on Member Austrian. Weeks passed. Came at last a day when the Austrian score added up to only 78, then came a 79, 77. Honest, grateful, member Austrian paid the promised $10,000. Scot Neill then asked him why he had been so anxious to break 80. The Austrian reply...
...ride through the freezing room, the fish, well and quickly frozen, are shipped in a special type of refrigerator car in which a below-freezing temperature is always maintained. The importance of 40-minute freezing lies in the fact that when fish are frozen, icy-crystals form inside them, break down the cell walls and allow flavor-giving juices to escape. The quicker the freezing, the smaller the crystals and the less the breakage. Old time freezing methods took 36 hours; other quick-freezing methods take 100 minutes. Mr. Taylor has cut an hour from the previous record. Thus...