Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hall. Looking for more C. I. O. meetings, the mob crossed the Kansas line. One section went to Treece, wrecked the C. I. O. headquarters there, another went on to Galena, marched up Main Street. As they came abreast of the C. I. O. headquarters, a volley of shots broke their ranks. When the sheriff got there he found nine Tri-Staters writhing in the street, C. I. O. headquarters deserted, no one to charge with the shooting...
...league game last year Feller struck out 15 batters, one less than the American League record, set by Rube Waddell 28 years before. Modern major-league strikeout record is 17, made by Dizzy Dean in 1933. In his third week of major-league play, against the Philadelphia Athletics, Feller broke the American League record, equaled Dean's. When the 1936 season ended, Feller's earned run average-roughly equivalent to a batter's batting average as a test of all round efficiency-was 3.34, second in his league only to that of 37-year-old Robert Moses...
...Pantheon at Rome, plus two long, windowless wings ending in Ionic porticos. Modernists winced, but most citizens felt that with his own money Mr. Mellon had the right to build any kind of building he chose. Few weeks later, plans for the Jefferson Memorial were disclosed, and the storm broke...
...Premier Leon Blum's 65th birthday, yeggs broke into the Paris office of the silk business run by his three brothers, blew the safe with an acetylene torch, stole...
...Boston Red Sox baseball team broke training at Sarasota. Fla., started north without Manager Joseph Cronin, whose wife had twins (boy & girl) born Shortstop Eric McNair, whose wife died in childbirth at Meridian. Miss.; Sec-Baseman Oscar Melillo, whose wife suttered a relapse in Chicago following the birth...