Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week, two hours before dawn, the boom of a gun broke the almost rural silence of Tirana, the small capital perched in the mountains of the tiny Kingdom of Albania. Boom followed boom until 101 had shaken the sleeping town. A son and heir had just been born to King Zog I and his Hungarian-American consort, Queen Geraldine. The man-child was named Skander after the great Albanian patriot who in the 15th Century stood off the Turks during some 30 years of hard fighting...
...straightforward Joe Lyons broke with his party and resigned from Australia's Labor Cabinet, when inflation and debt repudiation, which he thought dishonest, were proposed as the way out of Australia's financial crisis. Taunted for betraying his party, he replied that he would rather desert his party than his country. The Labor Cabinet fell, and he became Prime Minister as leader of a Conservative Coalition. Ruthless slashing of expenses, increases in taxes and refunding of the debt at lower interest rates prepared the way for a real recovery from Depression...
...Plow That Broke the Plains" and "The River," two films produced by the Farm Settlement Administration, will be shown in the Eliot House Junior Common Room, on Tuesday night at 8 o'clock under the sponsorship of the American Civilization Counsellors of the University...
...Villard's fights were on paper. He saw revolution in Munich and Berlin. He was held up when reactionaries broke into a Bavarian legislative session, kidnapped radical delegates. There are enough such climaxes in the 543 forthright, unsparing pages of Fighting Years to make it a valuable record. But Author Villard writes of revolution and shifts in The Nation's policy in the same steady way-for him, obviously, the battles are more important than his book...
...Navy game the Stahleymen held fast for the first three periods, but broke in the fourth, permitting ten goals to be won by the Middles and finishing with the score...