Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Singing the title role of Carmen in Baltimore, Rosa Ponselle fought so determinedly with Don Jose in the third act that she crashed to the stage, broke...
Just before dawn broke over the Caribbean, Captain Wallace Culbertson gunned his four motors for the takeoff. Skimming along at 50 m. p. h. he spied a small launch directly in his path. Although he swerved, a wing pontoon grazed the launch and the big plane skidded in a wild half-circle. The fragile hull split open and water poured in. Twenty-two desperate men & women scrambled to escape by hatchways and portholes. When the Clipper sank up to the overhead wing, two passengers and a steward were trapped, drowned...
...Carr, utility shortstop, broke his leg the other day, and Dave Shean, reserve second baseman, still lacks experience or power at the bat. There is little possibility of sparing Bilodeau, a proficient hurler, for duty on the hill, or Frank Owen, an outfielder last season, for work in the outer cordon...
With the Columbia game postponed because of wet grounds the squad had retired to drill indoors, where an informal game was in progress at the time Carr broke his leg. A leading utility man, the erstwhile hockey star will be out of action for an indefinite time...
...Adolph Kiefer of Chicago, ablest backstroke swimmer in the U. S., won the 150-yd. dash by half the length of the pool, without hurrying broke his own world's record by 3 sec., described his performance into a microphone before getting out of the water...