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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then that hell broke loose. Princeton's first line, taking advantage of Harvard's surprise, carried the fight to the Crimson. A shot from close up passed Emerson, bounced off the corner of the cage. He stopped several more by frantic lunges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIGERS BOW 3 TO 2 IN LAST HOME TILT OF 1936 SEXTET | 3/5/1936 | See Source »

...coming to a parliamentary system so formalized and impotent as Japan's. Nevertheless, it has been suddenly observed in recent weeks that Japan's few rabble-rousing proletarian candidates were actually drawing audiences of respectable size. As the slow Japanese counting of votes began, a big surprise broke last week when the previously minuscule Social Masses Party was seen to have won 18 seats in the new Diet, all of which will be occupied by thoroughgoing rabble-rousers who can make Japanese politics lively if they dare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Digressions from Election | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...starting gun. Producers Sam Goldwyn, David Selznick, Alexander Korda, Darryl Zanuck and Walter Wanger, who last week transferred his producing company from Paramount to United Artists, all have one color production on their current schedules; Pioneer Pictures, Inc. has four. Last week when The Trail of the Lonesome Pine broke records for an opening night at Manhattan's Paramount Theatre. Technicolor stock wriggled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 2, 1936 | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

Columnist Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt (My Day) from Hyde Park, N. Y.: "At noon Anna and I went coasting. First we both used the same sled, which broke through the crust and landed us both head first in the snow. After this experience we coasted on separate sleds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 2, 1936 | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...sprinter. Coach Tom Keane, developer of many a sterling quarter-miler, drew O'Brien aside, told him to forget sprinting, promised him instead the Olympic quarter-mile title in 1936. A narrow-shouldered runner whose slim legs give no clue to the drive they possess, O'Brien broke ahead of the pack at the start last week, stayed there, sprinted at the end to set a world record for the 600 metres: 1 min. 21 sec. Faithful addicts stayed to the end to see a new high in the high jump, 6 ft. 8 15/16 in., left satisfied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Indoor Climax | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

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