Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gavel fell for the last time, the Cohens had taken in about $4,000 in cash from their $28,000 windfall. After lawyer bills, warehouse rentals, auctioneer's commission, taxes and Mrs. Cohen's five weeks' lost salary were deducted, they hoped they would just about break even. Sighed Mrs. Cohen: "I never hope to win anything again. Once is enough...
...best, greater than Hinduism, Judaism, or Christianity. ¶ We believe in a universal church where theists, humanists, Christians, Jews and all religious truth-seekers may come together, each contributing to the common enrichment of their church. ¶ We believe in the development of this universal religion in order to break down today's tensions and so forward the sense of world community . . . ¶ We believe in the right of each individual to his own convictions. ¶ We believe that the Unitarian movement should reaffirm its tradition of a creedless church, and begin immediately to create and foster such fellowships...
...column Hollywood's private lives pass regularly into the public domain. "Oh, it's not sudden," said Shirley (as related by Louella). "I've been in Palm Springs for six days trying to think out the best thing to do. I didn't want to break up my home and my marriage, but there's no other way. I don't want to hurt John. I want our separation and divorce to be dignified. I am merely going to charge cruelty. John is a nice boy, but he's a little mixed...
Back in 1908 Merchant Peter Kessler took Johnny Edge into his business of running and later producing two-reelers. At first they are tightly fenced in by the movie combine, but through Johnny's shrewdness and Peter's stubbornness they break the monopoly and set up Magnum Pictures in Hollywood. Johnny serves in World War1 I and loses a leg, an injury which results in his psychic hardening, followed by his abandonment of sweet young Doris Kessler for a nymphomaniac actress, Dulcie Warren...
...this one-button bandit is attempting to grow fat, according to latest results, by poker-facedly beating a tattoo of 63,000 pecks in 13 steady hours. The time interval that the bird is working is being lengthened, and Dr. Skinner is attempting to learn when this bird will break down, exhibit signs of mental fatigue, and realize that the gambler's life...