Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saturday was a red letter day for the Harvard Varsity natators. The mermen defeated Dartmouth by the overwhelming score of 56 to 15, and in addition Graham Cummin, Coach Ulen's Sophomore backstroke ace, broke the national intercollegiate record for the 150-yard backstroke event...
...broad jump in the process, as well as talking a first in the hurdles and 50-yard dash. His win in the dash came as a complete surprise and Cornell, although they managed to pick up 32 1-2 points, never really had a chance after the Crimson captain broke the tape in the first event...
...mile race was really settled in the second lap when Bob Brayton, starting six yards behind, managed to come up with a terrific kick, giving Northrup a lead. Bill O'Connor; running as another man, broke the tape well ahead of Cornell...
Over the radio last week Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, who was distinctly New Dealish two years ago, openly broke with Franklin Roosevelt, saying: "As a radio speaker he is a wonder. As a business executive he is a flop...
...early cool of one morning, an army corps of jungle veterans mobilized around the chief square of Paraguay's capital of Asunción. At 7 o'clock they seized the railway station and two radio stations, broke off telephone, telegraph and rail communications and advanced on the Government forces in the nearby police headquarters. Against the veterans President Ayala had only the police and the crews of the Paraguayan Navy's five gunboats. The gunboats dropped shells into the square. The veterans replied with their old trench mortars. That night the President fled to a gunboat...