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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matched against Napoleon's peerless Grand Army. Napoleon conquered a continent and kept British commerce away from it for six terrible years. But in the end, strangled economically herself by the British sea blockade and finally knocked in the head by Wellington and the Allies, France went broke and got beaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: How Did It Happen? | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...victory ever Leverett. The score came in the second quarter when the Bunnies tried two running plays with the ball on their own one foot line, where Felmeth had placed it with a coflin-corner kick. On the second down, the entire Lowell line broke through and downed the runner behind his own goal for the second safety...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Catapults into First; Bellboys Nose Out Leverett 2-0 | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

Ernie Kahn of the Puritan forward wall brought about the first score when he broke through to block a Dunster punt on the 20 yard line. Bob Fulton scored on a reverse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Catapults into First; Bellboys Nose Out Leverett 2-0 | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

...blocked punt was the cause of the second score, when Gordy Day broke through the Rambler line to knock down Jack Bronston's kick on the Dorm goal line. Hank Burgess fell on the ball for the score and Ed Edmunds made the extra point on an off-tackle slant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUNNIES BEAT GREEN DORMITORY TEAM, 19-0 | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

Beford World War II broke, the number of army aumƦniers was increased to 600. The navy quota remained the same; the air force got 30. Catholic aumônier general (chaplain general), commanding 500-odd Catholic aumƦniers, is Monsignor Maurice Sudour, Archdeacon of St. Denis, who gets a general's pay, wears a general's star. Ordinary chaplains have no rank, but a captain's pay, wear religious garb behind the lines, khaki at the front. By special dispensation from Rome, all Catholic aumƦniers and other front-line priests may hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Aumoniers | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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