Word: broke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Damien Agricultural School, whose "bonus" allowances the government had reduced. Anti-Borno politicos seized upon this strike to spread the gospel of unrest through the canebrake country. A general strike began to gather momentum. At the Port-au-Prince customs house, under U. S. control, native employes rioted, broke office furniture and equipment, manhandled U. S. agents. A mob gathered before the National City Bank branch, jeered, threw rocks. Promptly the U. S. High Commissioner, Brig. General John Henry Russell of the Marine Corps, declared martial law, stationed Marines with machine guns on President Borno's palace lawn. President...
Usual Polish pandemonium broke out. Communists unfurled a huge red banner, flapped it in the faces of government deputies who closed their eyes and lustily bawled the "War Song of the Legionaries of the First Brigade" (favorite Pilsudski anthem), then marched from the hall...
...genuine desire for peace [on the part of Mr. Stimson] might have prompted him [to act] much earlier, even the first week after the Chinese broke the letter and the spirit of the Kellogg Pact by violent and unauthorized seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway and arbitrary measures against Soviet citizens" (TIME, July...
Then the Market broke and with it broke Blue Ridge and Shenandoah. Blue Ridge common went from a high of 29⅝ to a low of 3½. Shenandoah went from 39⅜ to 6⅞. Furthermore, the first of the year was rapidly approaching-a significant period at which the Market break would be clearly reflected in investment trusts' reports of operations. Many a market student anticipated a severe January slump in investment trust securities...
...Pasadena, Cal., Mrs. Anna McLuckie, 60, sleeping, was awakened by the bed shaking, thought it was an earthquake, leaped out, fainted, and broke her collar bone...