Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present, few and far between are the secondary schools in the Middle West that have sent a graduate to an Eastern university, and the loss is to both in the nature of things, only students with an unusual amount of initiative and intellectual curiosity ever break the chain that leads them either directly into a job or to the ministrations of a local academy of higher learning. Any measures towards removing the handicaps in the path of this type of candidate will both help to remove an unfair disadvantage and secure for the college desirable members...
Harvard and Yale football will be sketched, beginning with the first game at Hamilton Park, New Haven, on November 13, 1875. The Harvard-Yale game has been an annual event since that time, except for a break during...
Like all great musicians her flawless technique seemed almost beneath notice. Her personality had absorbed it and it was that consummate artistry that made a blase audience break into cheers, demand encore after encore. Musical critics have scant use for dancers. La Argentina turned the tables, sent them fairly scampering to their offices to write her notices worthy of a Casals or a Kreisler...
Thus, the Hoover market. Like its predecessor, the much-loved, much-criticized Coolidge market, it is the joy of bulls, despair of bears. Will it last? Will it break? Foolish bulls or stubborn bears...
...promised to reveal, this week, the rest, of the famous Forecast presidential prognostication, but I must break that promise, as I have often broken more important ones. But the truth is that a non-partisan body, composed of leaders of both parties, has asked me to hold off. Word came from rural communities in the West, where the name of Forecast is spoken in hushed and reverent tones, that the populace was a waiting my prediction before going to the polls...