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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the sun shone again and tempers began to improve. Painters, though forbidden by their unions to exert themselves, plied their brushes vigorously. Plasterers, bricklayer and frame-builders broke into a gallop of activity. By week's end 17 pavilions were finished and functioning, though it was expected that the whole thing would not be ready for a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Four out of 50 | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...three strokes. . . . Officials of the Professional Golfers Association were pleased when three of the players they had selected for the Ryder Cup team that will play England this month and four others named as eligible for it were in the round of eight. . . . British-born Harry Cooper last year broke the record for the U. S. Open by two strokes, lost the title when Tony Manero broke it by four. Last week when Cooper and Manero played each other in the quarterfinals, Cooper was 4 up with nine holes to play. Manero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Match Play | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...across the Swiss border with his three young daughters. Up & up they slid along the Great St. Bernard pass. Cru-u-unch went their skis in the granular Alpine snow as they came in sight of the home of the pious monks of St. Bernard. A deep-voiced barking broke out as the famed dogs of the monastery came leaping to greet the travelers. Shrieking with laughter and excitement, ten-year-old Marie-Anne hurried ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Mid Snow & Ice | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...Langley, S. C., during a fervent campaign speech for the post of county superintendent, Louis Togneri absentmindedly strode right off the platform into the crowd, broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 31, 1937 | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

CALL IT FREEDOM-Marian Sims-Lippincott ($2.50). Southern romance about a middle-class divorcee who broke herself of ten-year marriage habits on a circumspect male diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: May 31, 1937 | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

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