Word: broken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea of opening Suffolk County's wild and beautiful seashore to hordes of city trippers and picnickers. Last week they voted 7-to-3 to have no promised land. To $100,000 and 500 men from WPA they added $100,000 of county money to try patching the broken dunes with wire fences and brush jetties, filling in three inlets cut through the beach into the bays...
...William Osler died, broken-hearted by the death of his son, Revere, in the War. Halsted, who had once been addicted to cocaine but heroically broke himself of the habit, followed in 1922. Four years ago, at the age of 84, William Henry Welch died of cancer of the prostate in Johns Hopkins Hospital. Still hale & hearty at 80 is the last of the Big Four, Howard Atwood Kelly, father of the modern science of gynecology. Long retired from active practice, he has entrusted his work to several generations of professional sons whom he brought...
...young German revolutionary while the police were patrolling his house, Danton's Death has somehow struck the fancy of modern revolutionaries in the theatre, was produced in German in Manhattan by Max Reinhardt in 1927. It reveals the "moderate" Danton (Martin Gabel), weary of bloodshed, broken in purpose, fallen in power, propelled toward the guillotine through the fanatical ardor of Robespierre (Vladimir Sokoloff), the Incorruptible. After the knife has fallen, Robespierre's man Friday, Saint-Just (Orson Welles), defends the rigors of revolution in a speech of flame...
Speaking Russian, French, and broken English, with an occasional mixture of all three, the Ballerinas partook of tea and cakes and discussed their art with students and faculty of the Slavic department...
Ernie Fuller '39, Junior Varsity center for three years, was elected captain of the Jayvee team yesterday afternoon. On the same afternoon William Cordingley '40, Junior Varsity fullback, received a broken leg in the last few minutes of scrimmage...