Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voiced, in accordance with Quaker belief that the Lord furnishes inspiration,, for them, were the first in Quaker history at which portable microphones were used. Many a Friend found the flow of his inspiration halted; some declined flatly to voice their thoughts, and at one time the whole system broke down...
...standard African game-hunting expedition consists of several big, fearless men looking for lions and buffalo, and a battalion of black "boys" who wear their shirttails hanging outside and call their employers bwana. Ivan Sanderson, a young zoologist, broke all the rules when he went game hunting in Africa in 1932. At Cambridge he had decided it was necessary for anthropologists to know more about the neglected, obscure little animals whose places in evolution were uncertain and whose capture would have scientific rather than sporting importance. To help him collect them, he again broke the rules by selecting...
...chair to go into the back yard. Suddenly Chino snapped at her hand. Then he went mad, knocked her down, started gnawing at her. Bootsie was too infirm to be of any help. But Miss Parker's shrieks aroused the neighbors, who called the police. When a patrolman broke into the house he found Miss Parker lying unconscious in a pool of blood, Chino tearing the flesh off her arms. The patrolman knocked Chino off with a chair. Chino rushed at him, snarling. The patrolman pinioned him beneath the chair and shot two bullets into him. Then the officer...
Unfounded rumors of silver shipments totaling $100,000,000 from Canton and other cities in the interior of China to Hong Kong broke the price of bar silver in London to a new 1937 low of 19¼d (43?) an oz., 1½? below the U. S. price. Result- the U. S. Treasury therefore became a heavy buyer until the price differential was erased. Arbitragers promptly took advantage of the same situation, and 3,175,000 ounces of their silver last week arrived in Manhattan. On a war scare virtually all principal foreign currencies developed weaknesses against the dollar...
Born in Ohio, raised on a New Mexico ranch, he was "married, divorced and bankrupt" before he was 21. After going broke he settled down to work for the Overland used-car agency in Los Angeles until one day he heard that a steam laundry was badly needed in Tampico, Mexico, to wash oil workers' dirty shirts...