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Word: breaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winners got the first break of the game when they downed one of their own punts after a Winthrop back had accidentally touched it. From the Winthrop 15, Davenport moved to the one on two plays, and from there Dick Moses bulled his way over. Bud Krch dropped back from his guard post to kick the extra point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Takes House-College Garlands; All Other Houses Fall Before Yale Rivals | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

Touchdowns by Jerry. Last week, while one brother was playing at Williams and another at Yale, young Jerry was having a field day. Dad and seven other Conways (including Tommy) watched him break loose on a 50-yard touchdown run against Nichols School. That wasn't all: three times more he carried the ball across the goal line, as University School won, 32-0. A long-jointed broken field runner who used his blockers well, Jerry has scored 17 touchdowns this season, to lead all of the Cleveland area schoolboys. In the family, he is regarded as the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Conway's Boys | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...Motors, which had closed at 65¾ the day before election, opened Wednesday at 61. U.S. Steel opened down 4 on a block of 15,000 shares. In the avalanche of selling (3,230,000 shares for the day), the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 7.3 points, the sharpest break since the crash of the bull market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: The Fears of Wall Street | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...little confusing. Six weeks ago, the Department of Justice had asked the courts to break up the Aluminum Co. of America. Last week another federal agency, the War Assets Administration, approved a deal to make Alcoa bigger. It sold to Alcoa, for $5,000,000, the Government's $19 million aluminum reduction plant at Massena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALUMINUM: Slightly Confusing | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...they have had all season, the Yardling backfield struck back in the final period. Captain Carroll Lowenstein got off his longest pass of the day when he tossed for 30 yards into the arms of end Don Cass who was standing on the Brown goal. Charley Walsh converted to break...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Soccer Team Blasts Brown, 3-12; Freshman Eleven Triumphs, 20-6 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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