Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republicans elected shambling Samuel Shank, "friend of the poor people," to be Mayor of Indianapolis. The next year he became nationally known by hawking potatoes, geese, onions, eggs, tomatoes and cheeses from the steps of his city hall in an effort to break a commission merchants' trust. A street car strike ended his term prematurely, the carmen refusing to promise they would strike no more while he was mayor. He had threatened to resign if they failed to promise and he made the threat good...
...cabinet. This new regime marks the beginning of a new future for the Nationalist cause, i. e., the unification of China under a single democratic and Nationalist government, but how bright that future is with strong Northern forces dominating it, none can predict. It marks, too, a definite break with Moscow and Bolshevism and leaves the movement apparently free of internal dissension...
...last week the U. S. started yet another civil suit against Mr. Doheny, to break three leases he holds on strips of oil land adjacent to the Elk Hills reserve...
Four weeks ago a monoplane jumped eastward from Newfoundland to break the record for a journey around the world. At the controls sat William S. Brock; beside him sat Edward F. Schlee...
...first glance at the tackles eligible this fall seems to indicate that the strength of Harvard's 1927 football team defends largely on the advantage to which F. A. Clark '29 turns his lanky, powerful frame. Whether or not it is granted that one man can thus make or break a team, it appears that the key to the tackle situation, at least, rests with Clark...