Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Still the waves piled over one another ribaldly, broke, boiled away. Then a loud report fetched all eyes aft. They saw a pontoon shoot clear of the combers and settle back into the ocean in a smother of foam. Quickly then another catapulted through the waves, floated off casually. Far below the surface a chain with links two and a half inches thick and tested to a strain of 110 tons had parted. The work of months at the risk of many lives, all realized, had been swept away in a single moment. The wind blew fresher, the seas rolled...
...eight, rowing gallantly, furiously, sprinted away at the start; then Yale put up the beat and in a moment open water appeared between the shells; at the end of the race this open space was as long as two and a half shells. Both the Yale and Harvard crews broke the upstream record for the course...
...these issues a telegram was handed to Czechoslovak Benes. It contained an order from the chiefs of his party (Czech National Socialist) that he assist it in an attack upon certain grain tariff laws dear to the Czechoslovak Cabinet by resigning his Foreign Ministry forthwith. The Little Entente Conference broke up ere it began, as its dominant figure (Benes) hastened to Prague...
...libel, then several times sentenced for contempt of Court. Repeated pardons from the government and interference of the U. S. courts freed him. Then he succeeded in having Judge Leahy defeated for reelection. Last fall Leahy went up to Magee in a hotel lobby, knocked him down, kicked him, broke two of his ribs. Magee, on the floor, drew a revolver, fired. He hit Leahy in the arm and killed a bystander who had rushed in to stop the fracas...
Slant-eyed hooligans, brazen infidels, gathered at the fence to hoot at volleyball and Christianity. Came a troop of well-organized students from a nearby Chinese government school and joined the hooligans, broke down the fence, swarmed upon the volleyball field. The converts, attacked, left off their game, flew with their fists to the defense of their faith...