Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aviation service. Shockheaded, wild-eyed Brother Ramon Franco was the first member of the family to make world headlines. In 1926, widely hailed as the "Spanish Lindbergh," he flew non-stop from Cadiz to Buenos Aires, later became air attache to the Spanish embassy at Washington. When the revolution broke last year, hot-headed Brother Ramon made no secret of his Leftist sentiments. Somewhere in Rightist Spain today, Brother Ramon is sitting in jail...
...Samuel Eliot Morison's books? Why, everybody knows about Harvard. Even the professors at the Law School have heard." The Vagabond had been thrown for a terrible loss. He was apparently all for continuing in much the same exhorting strain, but the man with the big brown eyes broke in, quietly, sibilently...
...Tell a Freshman at a glance?" this time the Vagabond broke in. "This seems to be a game of questions and answers, and a one-sided game indeed. You answer that question...
...therefore, in its frenzy of rearmament, Great Britain is again preparing a balloon apron to be used for its psychological effect. How impressive this apron will be was last week indicated more dramatically than by any speech in Parliament. During tests at Cardington, a 50,000-cu. ft. balloon broke away, and before snagging in a tree in Sudbury, drifted 60 miles trailing no less than 40,000 ft. of wire. The Air Ministry was much relieved to find that no damage had been done by this 72-mile-long steel whip, less pleased perhaps by the premature revelation...
Horse Sleeping Sickness. A dramatic demonstration of just how useful a veterinarian can be and how badly an animal can need him burst on the convention while it was still sitting. In Nebraska, Iowa, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Maryland and Virginia an epizootic† of sleeping sickness broke out among horses. Hundreds of horses drooped their heads, leaned against their stall walls, collapsed into the straw, died. Some, excited by the nervous effects of the disease, banged their heads against the stalls, died trying to run on their sides. A vaccine against this disease, which is also called equine encephalomyelitis...