Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University baseball team finally broke into the winning column again yesterday afternoon, defeating a nine composed of former Crimson stars, after a stiff argument, by the score of 6 to 4 on Soldiers Field...
...were called to our mark. We were set. The gun was fired. We were off together the first time. Slowly Abrahams pulled away, and he broke the tape well ahead. He deserved to win, because he was the best man that...
...little figure, Tamio Abe, champion of Japan, moved quickly from side to side, rarely forward-he knew he couldn't take the net against Tilden's drives, that the best he could do would be to take advantage of errors. Twice Tilden made double-faults and Abe broke through his service but after the first set Tilden's long arms flailed faster and he ran the match out, 6-2, 6-3, 6-0. Another Japanese, Yoshiro Ohta, small as a bellboy but accurate as a sewing-machine, carried Hennessy to a deuce set before he went...
Louis Chevrolet came to the U. S. in 1902. He still talks with a French accent. He has a sister who lives in Plainfield, N. J. In 1917 in a Frontenac he broke the world's record for a hundred miles...
...station. Along the tracks went an express train, and across the tracks a huge St. Bernard dog. The train batted the huge dog through the air. The dog struck Mr. Dillon in the stomach and knocked him toward a lamp post. On the way he struck Mrs. Douglass and broke her arm. At the post he struck his head. There was a concussion of the brain, fear of a fractured skull, and weeks of convalescence. When he became well he and Miss Douglass were married, and went to Europe for two years ($8,000 railroad damages paid expenses). Although...