Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles last week had a perforated brain almost as bizarre as Berkeley's. Someone drove a knife into the head of one Frank Hill, Negro, and broke off the handle (see cut). The victim's skull was so thick that the surgeons could not pull out the blade without wriggling it, and wriggling would tear his brain irreparably. The surgeons therefore sawed the man's skull around the blade, lifted bone and blade together, expected uneventful recovery...
...still "well and strong" enough to teach, that the rule had been set aside in the past for "conservative" faculty members. When stocky, conservative Dean William F. Russell of Teachers College turned up in the convention to deliver a tongue-lashing to radical educators in general, a crackling storm broke...
...brisk wind was blowing from the German lines in the Ypres sector toward the trenches held by French and Algerian troops. Shortly after 5 p. m. the Allied soldiers saw a sinister greenish cloud rolling toward them across No Man's Land. Some of them broke and ran; thousands stuck to their posts or fled too late. Soon the trenches were heaped with gasping, choking, dying men. The gas was chlorine, 168 tons of which were released that day from 5,730 cylinders over a four-mile front. There were 15,000 casualties including 5,000 deaths...
...general war broke out, Author Prentiss believes that war gases which have proved efficient would be picked up where they were dropped in 1918. No one can say, of course, that a supergas has not been developed in secret, but this does not seem likely because the realm of possible chemical compounds has been too well explored. Moreover, nothing could be plausibly called a supergas until it had proved itself in practice. Many an idea that looked brilliant in the laboratory has been a dud on the battlefield...
...second fire broke out in a type-writer-renting office directly below the room that was the scene of the afternoon's blaze. Chief Herman E. Gutheim, head of the Cambridge forces, said that the same defective chimney caused both fires...