Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some distant observers assumed that the McGroartys had Dr. Townsend's support. Instead, Dr. Townsend and several of his leading followers declared that, as a matter of policy, they would not support Representative McGroarty or any candidate for President on the Democratic ticket. This week Representative McGroarty publicly broke with Dr. Townsend...
...opposite shore at the time of her launching (TIME, Oct. 1, 1934) and turning her downstream was performed without incident. Less than half a mile below the shipyard the Clyde bends in a double S. There came the crisis. With an angry crack the stern cable to one tug broke. Before another could be made fast, Queen Mary's bow was out of the channel, moving like a relentless cliff of steel shoreward...
...fighters. He broke the ice with a thump, announcing that he would run in the Ohio primaries (TIME, Feb. 17). As an attempt to force a fight on Candidates Knox or Landon, it was a failure. Both declined to enter Ohio after his announcement. He was left facing a favorite son. highly respectable Robert Alphonso Taft, son of the late Chief Justice, shrewdly picked by Ohio's Boss Walter Folger Brown to head the regular Republican ticket. With their candidate strongest in the Cleveland-Akron-Youngstown area, Borah managers will consider themselves lucky to win half of Ohio...
Citizens of Boston soon tossed the "detested T E A" into Boston Harbor, thus enabling the News-Letter to report that "a number of brave and resolute men dressed in the Indian manner ... in the space of three Hours . . . broke up 342 Chests...
Although he has made some very fast times this year, Graham Cummin will be up against two very good back-strokers in Dan Zehr, Northwestern star and Big Ten champion in the event, and Willis Willey, Princeton junior who defeated Cummin and broke the intercollegiate backstroke mark in the Princeton meet this year...