Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Early this year, Franklin Roosevelt firmly declared he would take no sides in this year's State elections. Last week, he broke this high resolve not of his own accord but because the principals in Pennsylvania's row about the Democratic gubernatorial nomination (TIME. Feb. 28) came to him for counsel. To the White House went Governor Earle, State Democratic Chairman David Lawrence. Publisher David Stern of the Philadelphia Record and Senator Joseph Guffey, presumably to get endorsement of a candidate. Said Governor Earle when the party emerged: "The President had only one suggestion. He said he needed...
...visitors around the Yard, is currently considered Harvard's most outstanding quarter-miler, is on the board of The Guardian (new undergraduate magazine), is a member of the Dramatic Club and is on the Dean's List (high-standing students). In spite of the fact that he broke his arm when he was five and broke his back when he was 14, hence has to do special exercises before running, experts expect Jim Lightbody Jr. to equal the feats of his famed father...
...children she knew, skating on a pond near Bridgeport, broke through the ice and drowned. The tragedy made a doubly strong impression on Bessie Pastor because she did a lot of skating herself. Then & there she resolved that she would some day create a safe kind of synthetic ice-not artificially frozen water, but some other solid compound that would offer a skater a smooth gliding surface. It might have other advantages over natural ice, but in Bessie Pastor's mind its primary quality would be safety...
...deciding to concentrate in English; others, finding themselves handicapped, are content to run along smoothly on a 'C' level and lose all the advantages of tutorial and thesis which are connected with honors. Every year men turn away from the field of English mainly for the reason that they broke from tradition and took courses in German instead of Latin in preparatory school...
...present company was incorporated, with him as president, and Otto Zachow received a block of stock. About 1914 Zachow and Besserdich sold out for $25,000. That was a mistake, for General Pershing had found several F.W.D. trucks useful while chasing "Pancho" Villa across Mexico. When War broke in Europe, the Allies began buying F.W.D. trucks in quantity. When the U. S. joined the Wrar, the U. S. Army took over F.W.D.'s entire output. By 1918 it had bought 16,000 F.W.D. trucks, and spare parts equivalent to 14,000 additional trucks. F.W.D.'s 15,000 shares...