Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city itself by Saturday night. At this point, exuberants in Salamanca were proclaiming a complete Rightist victory, publishing detailed descriptions of the relief of the garrison who had doggedly fought for their lives in the Cathedral, the Seminary and the Civil Government Building. Actually the Rightist wave broke at the city gates. Generalissimo Franco, following Leftist tactics in reverse, sent another column cross-country to retake Campillo and Villastar. Thus at week's end the battle moved into its second phase. The snow stopped, hundreds of stranded trucks dug themselves out for the relief of both lines, and Benito...
...Alexandre Barmine, the Soviet diplomat who was recently Russia's Charge d'Affaires at Athens, then broke with Moscow and denounced Stalin (TIME, Dec. 13), was being closely guarded in Paris last week by Socialists of the Second International and French detectives who stayed on duty day and night, fearing Soviet agents might kill or kidnap him. To British and French reporters Communist Barmine had told how he refused to dine aboard a Soviet steamer sent to Greece, suspecting the Captain had been ordered to shanghai him and take him back to Russia...
...Those who have been executed or have disappeared," wrote Diplomat Barmine in the Times, "were my chiefs, my friends, my comrades. I was 18 years old when the Revolution broke out in Russia. Like so many others of my generation in Russia, I was filled with hope and enthusiasm for the new Russia and the new world we were going to create. I left the university and engaged as a volunteer in the new army. At the same time I joined the Communist party...
...keeps detached roots alive indefinitely by supplying them with nutrient fluid. When he attached glass tubes carrying columns of mercury to his tomato roots, the mercury went up until it indicated a pressure of more than eight atmospheres (125 Ib. per sq. in.), at which point the powerful roots broke his apparatus...
...culture-maddened wives could not have dragged to the ordinary Sunday-night doings, elbowed each other before Radio City's Center Theatre, paid as high as $5.50 a seat to see a hash of items mostly warmed over from past modernist recitals. Three hundred and fifty standees broke the theatre's record, established on the closing night of The Great Waltz. As the formal conclusion of Manhattan's five-week Olympic Dance International, what was old stuff to Greenwich Village longhairs became a tiptop Broadway box-office attraction...