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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first doubles match, with Whitbeck and Hill representing Boston by virtue of their victory in the Massachusetts state doubles championships, spectacular play resulted before Williams and Sullivan broke down the resistance of the Harvard pair in three gruelling sets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON NET STARS TAKE PART IN CHURCH CUP WIN | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...death. Pondering on these things, wondering too if justice consisted of more than sympathy, the professor trudged through the fog, down by the river, and home again by the rustic bridge. At the gate a servant awaited him eagerly to say that Lorie had cried buckets and was "all broke up," because she had had to go to bed, leaving Hergesell at the party with his blonde. The professor rushes to his darling, comforts her in vain. He alone understood that the blonde had every right to dance on with Hergesell, while Lorie had quite rightly been permitted to dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pervading Sadness | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...dark unrest that lurks at the bottom of the coal industry, even at its best, broke out again last week in Mather, Pa. The Mather mine, owned and operated by Pickands, Mather & Co. of Cleveland, is one of the model mines of the U. S. In its shafts are all the modern appliances for air, light, production, safety. Run on an open-shop basis, it employs some 750 men steadily, 300 days in the year. The town is clean. The Mather men are contented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: At Mather, Pa. | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...homerun in the ninth inning when the score was tied at one apiece broke up the game between the Harvard and Michigan diamond forces at Ann Arbor on Saturday, giving the Wolverines a 3 to 1 verdict over the Crimson nine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOMERUN IN NINTH GIVES VICTORY TO WOLVERINES, 3 TO 1 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...Jersey City is Frank Hague, a member of the National Democratic Committee, close friend of Candidate Smith. Upon these two facts, with colorful amplification, a one-man spectacle was staged in Jersey City for several weeks, up to last week, when the one man's amplifier, his voice, broke down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Jersey Giant | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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