Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conclusion of the address, Storey adjourned the meeting and the group broke up into the five round table meetings in the Faculty Club...
...which to pick the winner; everyone says Cornell will take it hands down. This quartet hit 3 minutes 23.2 seconds in the B.A.A. meet, and with no middle distance events scheduled, all the runners will be fresh and ready to hit a new low time. Johnny Nevius, who broke the Yale-Cornell meet record last week with a 50.2 second leg will make up the team with Ham Hucker, brilliant veteran quarter-miler, Jim Pender, the sprinter and Walt Tatum...
From Glencoe, Illinois, comes Jim Light body, Jr., a middle distance man whose father was an Olympic champion of 1906. In the Andover meet on February 6 Light body broke the 600-yard run records of both Andover and Harvard, running the distance in the exceptionally good time of 1 min., 17 3-5 sec. In the same afternoon Light body also won he 300. Sports writers predict a future for Freshman Light body more brilliant even than that of his famous father...
...shot put big George Downing leads the field with heaves consistently over 52 feet. Captain of Exeter's track team last year he is pushing the shot out two feet further this year than ever before. He, too, broke Andover, Exeter, and Harvard Freshman records this winter. Witness his superior performance of 53 ft., 6 in. in the Exeter meet of January 13. Nat Heard, out of both meets with pneumonia, promises to be a close runner-up to Downing...
...were forced to suspend business outside their own States. To pay off claims against it of $529,365 required not only every cent of Fireman's Fund capital but an assessment on its stockholders. Chairman Levison likes to boast of this as the first time the company went broke and yet survived. The second time was after the Great San Francisco earthquake and fire in 1906. and this time Mr. Levison played a principal part in the rescue...