Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Drake, glider expert, persuaded his friend Lloyd O'Donnell to tow his glider by motored plane 200 miles to Long Beach, for a glider rodeo there. Their air train went well for 175 miles, a record air tow. Over Santa Susanna Pass, near San Fernando, the tow rope broke. Glider Drake was left 7,200 ft. in the air. Undaunted, he coasted ten miles and landed safely in a barley field...
Yesterday's warm weather together with last night's brief rain, broke up the ice on the Charles to such an extent that the University crews may take to the river today for the first time since about December...
Able, thorough-going (when he took up golf six years ago, he broke 80 during his first season) Mr. Pelley has had many a knotty problem as Central of Georgia president. During 1927, gross revenue of the Central of Georgia decreased about $4,000,000 or 13.15%. There was a disturbing drop of 25% in passenger business and an even more disturbing drop of 10% in freight business. Both passenger and freight revenue continued to fall during 1928, although their decline was not so precipitate. No fault of Mr. Pelley's however, was this unfortunate situation. It resulted chiefly from...
Douglas Elton Fairbanks was fired from a Denver office where he tilled inkwells because in odd moments he broke furniture, stood on his head. In a stock company and later as a juvenile on Broadway he found that public disorder could be profitable. In 1907 he married one Anna Beth Sully, daughter and heir of a soapmaker who stipulated that Fairbanks must superintend his boiling grease-vats. Six months later Fairbanks returned to the stage, was divorced in 1918, married Mary Pickford in 1920. Once, locked out of his room in the Plaza Hotel, Manhattan, he climbed up the face...
...pole vault was the cause of much excitement when Sturdy, Yale's champion, and Berlinger of Pennsylvania both broke the intercollegiate record beating by far the mark made by C. E. Dunlap '30, Colyer of Cornell, and Pond and Cone of Yale who were in a quadrangular tie for third...