Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment, while the implications of those words sank in, the Senate sat in shocked silence. Then the storm broke, and in one of the most exciting spontaneous debates of this or many a past session, the Senate talked Sit-Down, and nothing else for the rest of the week...
Once launched by Hollywood, badminton broke out all over the U. S. in patches. From Canada, which currently has about 25 of the world's best 30 singles players, including Professional Jack Purcell who two years ago beat Hollywood's Willard for the "world's championship," the game spread quickly to Detroit, Chicago, Seattle. Badminton literature began when Squash-Badminton appeared in 1934, grew when American Lawn Tennis added a badminton section last autumn, came of age last week when the national championships made badminton in daily papers jump from the society to the sports pages. Average...
...word that no Italian likes to hear is "Caporetto," the name of the Alpine village where in 1917 the Italian army broke and ran in the most ignominious rout of the War. Italians heard that word many times last week as fact after fact emerged to show that the defeat of the Italian legions was overwhelming, catastrophic, perhaps un piccolo Caporetto ("a little Caporetto"). Air fighters on both sides are now so good that daylight bombing of important centres is considered too risky. Madrid has not been daylight-bombed for two months. In Salamanca even veteran Hearst Correspondent Karl...
...final assault, under which the Italians broke and ran, the day was just practical for flying, and 120 planes, 60 tanks and about 10,000 Government infantrymen routed three Italian divisions of 5,000 men each. It was the coordination of those planes, tanks and infantry that brings this war into a new phase...
...airport "cone of silence" at 5,000 ft. out of sight of ground. He was ordered to circle once while another plane came in. "Okay," he replied. For four minutes, as required, he flew west, gradually mushing down through the clouds. The ceiling was about 800 ft. and he broke through it in a slow wheeling turn over the little town of Clifton about three minutes after telling the field he was "okay...