Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paced by Tony McGowan who broke 80 twice, the Crimson linksmen scored two Eastern Intercollegiate league victories this weekend when they nosed out the Brown golfers 6-4 Saturday morning and outdrove the Holy Cross team in the afternoon to chalk...
...bevy of deep-bosomed young women in the striped skirts and handkerchief headdresses of the peasants of the Roman Campagna broke through the guards, nearly mobbed the Dictator. All their noses were carefully powdered and some had lacquered finger nails. II Duce was delighted. From one he took a bunch of flowers; another he chucked under the chin; at a third he cocked a roguish eye. In the best of moods he invited all the foreign correspondents present to lunch. In a body they moved on to a dusty little trattoria whose proprietor, trembling with excitement, rushed from house...
...runs in the last of the eighth broke the ball game wide open and gave the Freshman baseball team a win over Dean Academy 17-10 yesterday on Soldiers Field. Lefty Edinburg collected his second win and held Dean scoreless with only one hit after he relieved Slim Curtiss in the sixth who had been tagged for ten runs...
...four days the Ethiopians held out against tanks, bombs, planes, heavy field guns. Then they broke and ran. But General Graziani was still some 225 miles from Harar. He admitted the loss of two planes, ten officers, some hundred casualties...
...traffic in Paris. He would take Mamma out in our Citroen and yell to the agents de police, 'femme enceinte,' which means, 'woman with child,' and the agent de police would stop all the trolley-cars and autos until Papa got by." This system broke down, however, the night the Abbes motored out to Le Bourget to see Lindbergh land. "Then Mamma suddenly got some pains in her belly and Papa and Aigner got sweat on their heads because they couldn't get out of the car with Mamma, and even if Papa yelled...