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Word: broke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been fascinated by caverns, abysses and underground rivers since, in his youth, he first avidly read Jules Verne's Voyage to the Centre of the Earth. He studied under the French archeologists Cartailhac and Bergouen, under Explorer-Geologist Edouard-Alfred Martel. When he was iS, the War broke out and he went to the trenches. The life of a soldier, he says, made him physically tough and inured him to hardship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Speleologist | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...Orchestra, a professional, unionized, 72-man group of players, offered its services to soloists at a minimum price of $1,800 per concert. First taker, who appeared last week in a Carnegie Hall concert with the new group, was U. S. Pianist Frank Bishop. Pianist Bishop played three concertos, broke down in two of them, but at least he had had his night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Orchestra for Hire | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...fell in love with the Journal because it defended him when somebody tried to blackmail him.) Bob Wolfe was a huge bear of a man, forceful, shrewd, hard-drinking, hard-cussing. He served a penitentiary term for shooting a man who insulted a lady he was escorting, personally broke into every boathouse on Buckeye Lake to aid rescue work during the 1913 flood, used to spout memorized poetry by the yard. He died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Papers | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Early this morning thieves broke into Claus Gelotte's camera store at 1290 Massachusetts Avenue, smashing a plate glass window and taking a $350 camera...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thieves Get Camera | 11/17/1938 | See Source »

...minutes--the sun was on the hilltops; at sunset the poison must be taken. Soon the jailor entered and strangely broke down and wept as he announced that the potion had been prepared. Crito begged Socrates to delay; there was still time enough to relax and eat and drink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/16/1938 | See Source »

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