Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...football. If we are ever to have contests which are free from the fallacies of the rule books, the various committees must overhaul their systems of rulemaking and revision. As it is now, the best team does not always win. It is occasionally the team which gets a lucky break from the almighty regulations. Robert F. Lawson...
...Cargill had sold rye short and would have lost its shirt if it could not have bought grain to cover its contracts before the near corner drove the price skyhigh. The court shook its head over the slick trick Cargill, Inc. had used to import Canadian rye cheaply and break the market. Cargill apparently had been able to do so by crawling through a loophole in the law that permitted the import of rye free of duty, if it were sold for feed. (Cargill got the Bureau of Customs to give it one year's time in which...
...announcement that Veto Kissell will play fullback is a break for the Purple. A 207-pound fullback, who made All-East last season, he is a strong, hard runner, and when sprung goes a long way. He also kicks off for the Purple...
...with everyone, especially the poor. When the psalms were chanted he often stretched on tiptoe toward heaven with his face turned upward. He seldom had much to say about everyday affairs; but when the conversation turned to spiritual things he sometimes became so eloquent and moved that he would break off and excuse himself. "My brethren," he would say, "I must go; someone is waiting to converse with me in my cell...
...keep the Negroes out. Soon the U.S. press is ablaze with a garbled, press-service version of the story, while Washington, drawing back its skirts, coldly leaves Beale holding the bag. When the book ends, the storm has subsided as suddenly as it began. It is ready to break out again any day; but meanwhile Gus Beale has escaped by a hairsbreadth, Negro equality has been officially confirmed and white supremacy unofficially enforced, and the march to victory proceeds...