Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mark of 21 1-5 seconds was made in 1896 by B. J. Wefers of Georgetown. Only two men, R. C. Craig of Michigan, and D. F. Lippincott of the University of Pennsylvania, have succeeded in equalling this record in the 28 meets which have been held since Wefers broke the best previous mark by three fifths of a second...
Methodist Episcopal, South. The general conference is legislative and judicial. Last week the lay and clerical delegates hoped for a sedate session, but occasionally broke up into opinionated wrangles. An attempt to railroad through a stiff fundamentalist resolution caused the noisiest row. The resolution was pocketed in committee. Prohibition was approved, theatres damned. At one session the 2,000 delegates paused to pray that "peace and brotherhood be restored to England...
...Pacific Mail protested vehemently, but the Dollars won. The Pacific Mail broke...
...list of seven published stories and essays, The Fall Guy, an interpretation of U. S. life that was dramatized with large success only a couple of seasons ago. His ministry in Belgium began in 1913 and he was working on J. Hardin & Son (published 1923) when war broke out. Belgium (1919) is one of the finest, most understanding documents ever made by a stranger within any one's gates...
...Leach, 64, English-born "daredevil artist," famed for his successful trip over Niagara Falls in a steel barrel (1911); at Christchurch, New Zealand. Mr. Leach failed in an attempt to swim the rapids of Niagara last fall. His death resulted when he slipped upon a bit of orange peel, broke his leg, and underwent a subsequently fatal amputation...