Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Thomas and Light met later in the evening to decide the title, both were tired from their first fights. Thomas gave a fine display of headwork by clinching and tieing up light's dangerous right; but the latter broke free often enough to land telling blows, and in the third round overwhelmed Thomas with driving punches...
Gore opened with a whirlwind attack that did not give Falcon's defense an opportunity to organize itself. Led by the accurate shooting of Joseph Rauh Jr. '32, and the fast passing of the two forwards, the Freshmen easily broke through and scored frequently. At half-time the score...
...team opens its season Saturday, playing B. U. at 3 o'clock on Soldiers Field. At present it seems probable that the infield will be composed of three veterans and a newcomer. McGrath, who captained last year's Freshman nine, broke into the veteran combination of Prior. Nugent and Donaghey and will in all probability be seen at short. Whitney, at present listed with the outfielders, was seen at the hot corner quite frequently last year so there is a possibility of his being shifted to the infield...
...broke through a light fog as the rival strokes dipped their blades. There was a hush−then cheers. For a moment the lighter Oxford crew drew ahead, with nervous high strokes. Another hush. Then the light blue, settling into regularity, caught up and moved on. At Craven Steps, marking the mile, Cambridge led by three-quarters of a boat-length, stroking 30 to the minute against Oxford's 32. At Chiswick Church, which marks two miles, Stroke Brocklebank had geared his men to 29 strokes to the minute and they had increased their lead to two lengths...
...more years ago, according to the planetesimal theory of the late Geologist Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (TIME, Nov. 26). a star passed near to the sun, and by tidal action sucked the gases of a great sunburst out into space as a monster twirling gas mass.† The gas broke into eight main puffs which gradually coalesced into the eight planets-Mercury, Venus, Earth. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The first four are now more or less solid, the others very gaseous, Jupiter, the largest, being 1,000 times greater than Earth...