Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the World War broke out, Mr. MacWhite was prodded and hustled out of a French railway car at Lyons, so that the car might be used to rush poilus to the front. Stranded but not downhearted, Irish Michael MacWhite joined the French Foreign Legion, fought all over the Balkans, and commanded the last French division to be withdrawn from Serbia. Presently the French Government sent him lecturing through...
Clouds, air pockets, winds, days, nights. Dismayed by enormous puffs of fog the flyers left the seacoast, roared over a 60-mile circuit above Imperial Valley. They broke the U. S. record for re-fuelled flight. They broke the international re-fuelled flight records.* Shortly afterward fell the world's record for sustained flight (heavier-than-air machines).? There remained but two records to pass, that for sustained flight (lighter-than-air machines), and the distance record...
...game started at a fast pace the Middlebury team falling into the defensive tactics that it maintained for a great part of the game. Harvard's attack broke through this defense several times to score, ringing up a total of 22 points by the end of the first period, while the Middlebury outfit having little difficulty in scoring, once it got the ball, shot a total of 21. Throughout the game, Harvard's play was characterized by a strong driving attack, and a weak, unorganized defense...
...which had been published several times before without denial, it rings true, and when I consider the veracity of TIME, and compare it with that of members of the German High Command, I prefer to believe TIME. We have not yet forgotten how Feld Marshal von Machensen, et al, broke their pledged word, as evinced by solemn treaty, and invaded Belgium without any right except that of might. If their word was of no value in 1914 what reason have we to believe that the leopard has changed his spots? The same stricture applies to the occupant of Doom...
Rough checking by both teams marked the third period play as the Crimson carried the attack to the Toronto goal. Time and again the Harvard offensive broke on the stalwart opposing defensive pair. What seemed to be a certain Crimson scoring chance was blasted when Captain Whitehead hurled his stick across the ice to knock the puck away from Tudor...