Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then trouble ran towards him with a war whoop. Due largely to the idiotic incompetence of Lord George Germain, who was sending orders from England, Burgoyne lost the battle of Saratoga. In this, one of the world's fifteen decisive battles, the rocket of British victory broke and splintered down in a bright shower of speeches, excuses, parades and further sprightly but ineffectual engagements. With Saratoga, Gentleman Johnny had lost a war and a continent...
With a total of 895 minutes in the air, the Harvard Flying Club broke its former record during the past week, according to W. N. Bump '28, president of the club...
...name of Tyrus Cobb broke into last last week's football news. One of the substitutes sent against Bordentown Military Academy by Hun School* (which won 46-0) was Tyrus Cobb Jr., son of the man who has averaged more than 180 hits every season for 21 seasons...
...Guardia got into an airplane and in few hours, whizzing westward, was looking down on the sprawling metropolygon that is Chicago. Landing for fuel at Chicago's municipal airport, Representative La Guardia's plane hit a rut, upended, shook up Representative La Guardia and his pilot, broke a propeller and a dinner engagement...
...word was such that she commanded the members to marry whomsoever she should select. Without her consent none could marry. Many a match she broke. This she did in order that her followers might make good marriages, "good" meaning an accretion of wealth for this and that gang...