Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right people, finally stood for Parliament. He was four times defeated before he got in, but since he had made the sacrosanct Carlton Club he knew he had practically ar rived. Meantime he had made another conquest, of the beautiful Henrietta who was his mistress for two years. He broke with her at last because she would not understand that the Career came first...
...mark. As Mr. Takahashi's son, who works in Manhattan, said last week, "Father was always trying to balance the Japanese budget even when we were still little children." Tall and vigorous, emphatically the Great Takahashi, this elder statesman leaped up from his wooden pillow as the mustards broke into his bedroom and shrilled bravely, "What are you trying...
...Finding little information in anatomical literature on the tensile strength of human tendons, Alfred Eugene Cronkite of Stanford University took 294 tendons from corpses, stretched them between two receding clamps, noted the reading on a beam balance when the tendon broke. Experimenter Cronkite could find no clear correlation between tendon strength and age, cause of death or function of the tendon. In general the strength varied between 9,000 and 18,000 Ib. per sq. in. of cross section. One tendon from an 85-year-old man stood up under nearly 30,000 Ib. per sq. in., about...
Martha Graham became a leading Denishawn dancer, a Denishawn teacher. Still she felt frustrated, broke from the California studio to teach at Rochester's Eastman School of Music, left Rochester determined to free-lance her way no matter what the odds. The way at first was vague. She had had no contact with Laban or Wigman. Yet she felt the same urge to escape from pretty dancing. Striving for a vital, spontaneous expression, she took to lunging and prancing, projected a sincerity almost severe. In 1926 with $11 to her name she gambled on her first Manhattan recital. Chronically...
...that his ideals had died, but warped into forms unrecognizable to himself, and in the procedure twisted askew the axis of his private life." And even schoolboys still struggling- with Caesar's Commentaries can tell Author Pratt he is wrong to write ''The Roman spell was broke," or ''The Gauls were beat...