Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week rains broke the drought in the South, gave hope of moderate crops. Still in critical shape were the corn states which, heat or no heat, could produce no more than 74% of their normal crop. Added to the list of emergency drought states was Governor Landon's Kansas, where Soprano Marion Talley's 1,600 acres of wheat were scorched brown...
...this sultry, tense atmosphere, some Socialists last week leaned out of their headquarters windows in the North African garrison town of Melilla in Spanish Morocco and brashly booed a regiment of the famed Spanish Foreign Legion, marching home from drill. The Legionnaires broke ranks, threw the Socialists out their own windows. At this a huge revolt, carefully planned, erupted into plain view and silence descended on Spain...
When the War broke Speyer Brothers went out of business and "Hen Opp" retired, made no more money, bought little more art. With Zeppelins over London in 1917, Sir Charles Holmes's thoughts turned to "Hen Opp,'" who had helped finance the Underground, was called "Father of the London Subway." In his memoirs published fortnight ago* Sir Charles recalled how "Hen Opp" quickly arranged to store in "the unused station in the Strand . . . a perfect subterranean fortress . . . some 900 of our best pictures, with selected works from great private collections." Generous to the last in loaning drawings from...
...contests-to announce which the Committee did not even bother, when the loudspeakers broke down, to furnish an amateur badge-wearer with a second-hand megaphone-were in athletic merit probably equal, if not superior to those which a cosmopolitan crowd of 100.000 will witness in Berlin's Olympic Stadium next month. In twelve of the scheduled events, the U.S. has competitors who have made better times or distances than any European rivals. In the five remaining events, the entrants at the Randalls Island meet were, by & large, as competent as the entrants in the same events will...
...Negro high jumpers-Cornelius Johnson, David Albritton-broke the world's record, tied...