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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian transport at Cadiz, officially a member of Spain's Foreign Legion. Last week Fortunato Manure was one of some 200 Italians, ranging in rank from privates up to a Lieutenant-Colonel, who were captured by Madrid's defenders in five days of furious strife which badly broke the point of the so-called "Italian Spearhead" thrusting at Madrid from the northeast on the Guadalajara front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Unfortunate Manure | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...avoid similar tragedies, United and other users of DC-3's immediately ordered leather boots to be fitted around all control columns, covering the V-shaped well. Spotting this innovation at Newark, the New York Herald Tribune's crack Aviation Editor Carl B. Allen immediately understood it, broke the story in a front-page scoop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Well of Tragedy | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...affair came to a tragic conclusion. Mrs. Newcome discovered that Leni was an actress who had turned on the gas, obviously unfitted to bring up a nervous child. Leni had to leave. Night before she was to go, the War broke out. The little doctor tried to rush Leni to a train to get her back to Germany; the bicycle on which both were riding got a flat tire; they missed the train and spent an innocent night in the fields. When they got to London they were arrested. Unfortunately for them, that same night Mrs. Newcome had taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dear Doctor | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...actions with girls, which spoke louder than their lewd chatter. He drifted off to become a precocious hack-driver. First of the bunch to go further than the universally-allowed petting were Estelle and Sol, the chesty athlete. That went on till they got a scare, then they broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jews in Chicago | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

Amid one of the wildest celebrations in Harvard sports history, the Varsity swimming team broke the Yale jinx Saturday night as they toppled the Eli mermen 39-36 after the latter had won 163 consecutive victories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pick All-League Hoop Team; Mermen Topple Yale | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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