Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squadron of planes, easily identified as Japanese by the red balls on their wings, appeared and dropped their first bomb. A direct hit just forward of the bridge put the Panay's only antiaircraft gun out of action, slammed Lieut. Commander Hughes against the bridge wheel, broke his leg, and blew all the clothes off Lieutenant D. H. Biwerse of Sheboygan, Wis. but left him uninjured...
...hands and loggers. Many a newspaper owner might wish himself able to resolve his publishing worries as simply and succinctly as did Publisher Dorothy Anne in the Star's latest issue. She wrote: "SPECIAL EDITOR'S NOTE: this may be our last issue as we are going broke, we have to pay out so much money. We have to pay our publishers in Portland, and we have to buy stamps and paper. Daddy says the Republicans could save us but there aren't any. . . . Mr. Starr [company manager] told us to keep struggling, but Nellie, who helps...
...Redskins needed to win to become Eastern champions; the Giants needed only a tie. Washingtonians bearing banners paraded up Fifth Avenue, whooped and hollered at the Polo Grounds as Baugh completed 11 out of 15 passes, Cliff Battles gained more than 200 yards running, and Tackle Turk Edwards broke open the hitherto impregnable Giant line. The Redskins won 49-to-14. They went jauntily back to Washington, and as they rehearsed for the wind-up with the fearsome Bears, railroads offered jubilant Washington fans a special rate of $23.20 for the round-trip to Chicago. The Bears were...
...generators was entirely too decrepit to function. By next day three others had started, but one promptly broke down when an oil line clogged. The fifth, Superintendent Fenstermacher was surprised to discover, turned out only 25 cycle current, which is no longer used. H. A. Gould, one of the Commission's engineers, wired Mr. Beamish: "Plant worked by an emergency crew nearly 100 men and cost terrific." Steam was leaking through dried-up gaskets. Coffee and impromptu sandwiches were served in a room once used for repairing meters but the men felt so sick from oil fumes that they...
When the Spanish Civil War broke out, Manuel Chaves Nogales, author of Juan Belmonte, remained as editor of a Loyalist newspaper in Madrid, although he protested that he "lacked revolutionary spirit," disapproved of both proletarian and fascist dictatorships. After four months, having "accrued enough merits to deserve to be shot by either side," he fled to France, declaring he could have no dealings with murderers "even though in our times this is a luxury that few can afford...