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Word: broke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gentlemen were driving in a buggy in front of Holworthy yesterday forenoon the rear axle broke near one of the wheels. No one was injured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 10/14/1882 | See Source »

Serious riots broke out yesterday at Alexandria between the hostile natives and Europeans, during which about twenty persons were killed. Among the wounded are the English consul, the Greek consul and the Italian consul. The immediate cause was the stabbing of an Arab by a Maltese...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 6/12/1882 | See Source »

Myers on Saturday broke the record in the 400 yards run, making the distance in 43 5/8 seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 6/5/1882 | See Source »

...meeting of Yale on Saturday J. H. Briggs broke the best previous Yale record in putting the shot, making...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 5/2/1882 | See Source »

There has been formed among the seniors an Anti-Pun Society, and it costs a man five cents to get funny. The proceeds are to go for a supper of the society as soon as all the members are dead broke. - [Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/20/1882 | See Source »

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