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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following Thursday's disappointing showing against Tufts, Coach Fred Mitchell inserted now punch in his line-up against the Quakers. Bob Gannett broke into the batting order, playing right field with Jim Sullivan patrolling left, while Johns, still wobbly on his spiked heel, returned to his position at second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IMPROVED NINE WHIPS PENNSYLVANIANS 4-1 | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...Harumph!" broke in Chief McDermott. "We have only been exploring the matter thus far. It is not quite correct to say that the negotiations are in progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: First Lesson | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

Starting times were delayed a little by the Leverett House crew, whose number seven man felt a little too strong in a practice start and broke his oar in half; but when Bert Haines got the boats off from the start of the first race, Lowell immediately jumped into a lead they were never to relinquish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell, Kirkland, Eliot, Adams Crews Qualify | 5/19/1937 | See Source »

Reached at Graz, Austria, Dr. Eckener nearly broke down at the body blow to his life's work. Voice husky and goatee aquiver, the Jieavy old man sagged like one of his airships short of gas as he hurried back to Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Oh, the Humanity! | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...plashy banks of the Housatonic River in northern Connecticut one morning last week, two fishermen looked up with scowls as a hiker with a rucksack and a brown duffle shaped like an oversized golf bag broke through the woods with a noise loud enough to scare every trout within 50 yd. Abashed, the hiker tiptoed downstream, dropped his burden in a small clearing. While the two fishermen watched, first in irritation then in amazement, he took a red rubbery roll of cloth and a heap of small sticks from his duffle, put the sticks together in a simple frame, shoved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Faltbootpaddeln | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

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