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Word: broke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though Mr. Gardiner never won his football "H", still he was an outstanding tackle on the Crimson team in his Sophomore year until he broke his arm in the Princeton game. In his Junior and Senior years he aided in coaching the Freshman eleven. Mr. Gardiner rowed on the 1914 University crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAINE GOVERNOR IS TO HEAD FOOTBALL DINNER | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Federal agents, peering through a window of a private house from a back alley, saw steam rising from copper coils, heard the roar of a boiler fire, smelled the sour odor of cooking mash. Although they did not see the moonshiners at work, they broke into the house without warrant, seized the aromatic mash, the steaming still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Warrants Required | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...from France in a chartered tramp steamer. Her engines broke down. He reached Valencia two days late, after the revolution had fizzled, and just in time to be arrested for High Treason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Down with the King! | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...field frozen hard as a state road eleven West Pointers in gold sweaters played all afternoon without a substitution against a Notre Dame team that has the finest record in the U. S. Time and again Army tacklers broke through to down shifty Moon Mullins and Sprinter Jack Elder. In the second quarter Elder, on his four-yard line, got to an Army pass. Instead of knocking it down and covering receivers, in the fashion proper for goal-line defenders, he caught it, raced 96 yards for the only touchdown of the game. Notre Dame 7, Army 0. Brainy, hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Goliaths. Giant planes of U. S. manufacture have met with bad luck. Fire almost destroyed Keystone's 18-passenger Patrician. Rebuilt, it toured the country, then at Boston this summer it broke itself in a ditch. (It has again been rebuilt.) The Burnelli Skyliner for Paul Wadsworth Chapman (owner of the Leviathan) was washed out landing in a high wind. Anthony Hermann Gerard Fokker, designer extraordinary, was greeted with commiseration when he stepped off the Homeric, back from Europe, last week. His F-32, seating 32 persons, largest U. S. land plane, had just crashed a row of buildings near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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