Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sidewalk crowds seethed with upperclassmen and "townies" looking for a fight. Scuffles broke out, fists swung, policemen's billies began to descend...
...these two processes were revealed with successive variations, all theories broke down. The end was mystery. An English delegate, entrusted with reporting the Hooker mysteries, said he would not be believed. A U. S. adept told how he had paced the streets, unable to sleep, tortured with speculation. Dr. Hooker will presumably leave his secret to the younger men who already share it, with instructions that they keep it amateur magic, bequeath it in time to other successors. Perhaps the Hooker secret will thus be kept for centuries...
...Cradle of the Deep? Is the Pedro Gorino another dubious "autobiography"? Like Ethelreda Lewis, amanuensis for Horn, Captain Dean's "assistant writer," Sterling North, met his subject receptively, admiringly. It was in March 1928, that University of Chicago authorities introduced them. Harry Dean, like Trader Horn, was broke, peddling his talents. North was 20, a poet, storyteller, student; Dean was 63, face sun-golden, hair silver, head ringing with words of Horace, Casanova, Cellini, Dumas. He had long been an adventurer on the continent truly his race's for 16,000 years. How much dark embroidery...
...Meredith. Stanford's Harlow Rothert put the 16-lb. shot 50 ft. 3 in. For 51 years college athletes had tried in vain to better 50 ft. Last year Rothert's teammate, Eric Krenz, succeeded with a heave of 50 ft. 1 in. This year Rothert broke that record twice in one sunshiny afternoon. Krenz came second with 50 ft. 5/8 in. Captain Jimmy Reid of Harvard, intercollegiate title holder, ran two miles in 9 min., 22 sec., breaking a record set ten years ago by Cornell's Ivan C. Dresser. Southern California's Jesse Hill...
...addition to cash prizes, Indianapolis racers win awards for leadership in each lap, awards offered by accessory manufacturers for the successful use of their products-spark plugs, tires, gasoline, ignition. The prize total is high, there is frantic competition. In 1912 Ralph De Palma led for 499 miles, broke down, pushed his car the last mile, finished among the leaders, was disqualified. In 1925 Harry Hartz finished fourth, having driven the last half of the race with his car's frame sprung out of line, the front axle bent, the steering post torn loose from its bracket, a film...