Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Penn. As a pistol shot started the 175-yard dash at Philadelphia, Charles Paddock jumped away from the line while the nearest spectators leaned over the brick wall of the grandstand to watch him. Badly made and softened by dampness, the wall broke and onto the track tumbled spectators and debris. One old man fell square into the path of Paddock who jumped over him and then swerved to avoid debris, pounded on to cross the finish line in 17 2/5 sec., a world's record...
...rough water in the Basin. The Ineligible Combination and University 150-pound crews both started the class race, but the light weight combination dropped out at the Henley distance and the Ineligibles, after starting well, were serious handicapped when S. I. Bowditch '28, rowing No. 2, broke his oarlock, which resulted in disabling him and splitting the oar of W. H. Boldt...
...renowned California flash broke his latest, and incidentally ninety-fifth, record on Saturday afternoon at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia, when he sprinted and vaulted through a crowd of prostrate spectators and broken masonry for a time of 17 and 2-5 seconds in the 175-yard dash...
Fourty-eight undergraduates representing each of the four classes in the College officially broke into politics Tuesday afternoon, when they were hired by the independent machine of Boston to check up on the vote counting in District 11 in the Republican primaries...
Martha Norelius in a swimming meet in New Brunswick, N. J., broke by four seconds the world's record for a 300-metre free style. Her time...