Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four post is hotly contested between Alex Whitman '41 and Walt Reed '41. When Elbert Moffat broke his rib at number four on the Freshman Firsts, Reed moved in to take his place. After Moffat returned last week Reed was shifted to starboard where he became a throat to Whitman who has been rowing number three oar consistently all year. Because Moffat's position is practically assured, one of these other men will move down to the combination post...
...city will starve even though it means taking all the city's money for relief operations." So promised Cleveland's Mayor Harold H. Burton last week, but the city still had no means of repairing its relief agencies, which broke down when funds ran out three weeks ago. While 75,000 Clevelanders were getting short rations instead of checks, all 19 of Chicago's relief stations last week shut their doors with a bang. Thirty-four thousand of their 93,000 relief cases (each "case" represents about three people) got, instead of monthly checks, baskets doled...
...causes of friction, last week received setbacks from two sides. Friction between Czechoslovakia and Germany over the bitter Sudeten German question rubbed that corner of Europe raw, and the French and Italian conversations, designed to produce a Franco-Italian pact such as Britain signed with Italy three weeks ago, broke down over the war in Spain...
...Little America camp, members wearing parkas presented him with a life-sized penguin made of ice. An Eskimo dog wandered around among the tables. Admiral Byrd showed motion pictures of his Antarctic expeditions, revealed that except for the money he made by lecturing he would be completely broke, was "pretty nearly broke" anyway...
...Harvard broke a ten year Yale monopoly on the Northern Division championship this season, winning all of their matches. Last week-end they lost to Princeton, holder of the Southern Division title, 5-4 in a play...