Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This winter, for instance, they have been able to row outdoors the entire season, while it will be remembered that in the 1948 Compton Cup race the Crimson had to break the course record to finish 12 inches ahead of the Orange and Black. (In two meetings later...
...away from the pool as Verdeur began his laps. Reid finished up the race and Kiphuth looked at the stopwatch, laughed, and said to those next to him, "we better leave after that." The announcer informed the assembled multitude that, although the time was excellent, "it didn't quite break the world record...
...bureaus are not doing even an acceptable job in these fields. So it is up to the Government--which is already socialistically entrenched in the Columbia Valley--to do its work better through the medium of an independent agency like the CVA. If the Eighty-First Congress manages to break through the power-lobby smokescreen to pass the CVA bill, it will have something, at least, to be proud of, regardless of the rest of its legislative record...
...play opens, she is being proposed to by a gentleman who has been a trusty employee of the Gas Company for the past 25 years. He is surprised (through this member of the audience was not) when at the end of the first act the two jailed sons break in through the living room window and wreck mother's chance of re-marriage. Mother, throughout the play, believes her boys to be angels, and the victims of bad company, bad luck and a drunken judge...
...character of the mother, as played by Lois Bolton, is frequently pathetic: she is not insane, (as say, the two sisters in "Arsenic and Old Lace,") but is obviously genuinely in love with her sons. She is thrilled to have them back home even if it means a jail-break, and she is also quite serious about her Gas Company beau...