Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign. It was a full seven minutes before the wildly yelling crowd would let him begin his long-awaited pronouncement on foreign relations. Twenty-nine times in the course of the 24-minute speech, on which he and his advisers had been working all summer, his audience broke in with applause or cheers...
...medical inspection, it is also necessary to instruct him to retract it when the examination is over. His entourage can converse without letting him understand what they say by spelling crucial words. When they want him to be amused, they invite him to "sit down and read the pictures." Broke and stranded, Joe's manager signs him to wrestle Sadie. Joe. who likes women close to his own weight, falls in love with her, enjoys her favors, refuses to go through with the match...
Defeated only once this season, fast coming of age as a major football power in the Pacific Coast Conference, University of California at Los Angeles, paced by Fullback Billy Williams who broke a 13-to-13 tie with a place kick in the last quarter, beat Oregon State...
...days age a group of American Legionnaires, wearing their Legion caps, and led by members of the local constabulary, broke up a meeting which was about to he addressed by Earl Browder, beating up those who resisted them with clubs and pistol-butts. According to newspaper reports, the attack was made following a cry of "All red-blooded Americans, come...
...Jameson, a sophomore end, broke into the A team line-up yesterday, but the coaches refused to attach any significance to the change. Admittedly the end play hasn't been satisfactory, and experiments are being tried all the time to strengthen the flanks...