Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in three years, the Crimson squad did not relax during the whole game but held the puck so tenaciously that the carefully planned Tiger defense broke down in desperation after the first period. The team work has improved steadily during the last month and was at a peak Saturday night as short passes constantly eluded the Tiger defense and six of the goals were on assists...
...loud thesis last week of Nevada's Senator Key Pittman, chairman of the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Senator, being about to excoriate Japan, handed out advance copies of his speech in Washington. Japanese correspondents slapped this on the cables, and Japanese editors unwittingly broke the release date. Thus, before Key Pittman opened his mouth to keynote, Tokyo had read his speech. Headlined the Tokyo Asahi: "CHAIRMAN OF SENATE'S FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE OFFICIALLY ATTACKS JAPAN-Japanese Foreign Office Says 'Let him roar.' " In the main Senator Pittman's theme was that Japan...
Next day Footballer Golemgeske's story broke in the local dailies, strongly pro-Spears, because, Meanwell protagonists claim, Spears had previously promised their two sport columnists university employment if he obtained the 1934 appointment as athletic director. By this time Golemgeske had changed sides, charged that Director Meanwell had offered him a job and two major letters if he would circulate a petition for Spears' dismissal, also accused him of giving him a swig of whiskey after a 1935 game. Waukesha alumni, fearing that their native son was the football of opposing groups, engaged a lawyer, sent...
...covered a pastime which would supply Y. M. C. A. boys with healthy exercise without encouraging roughness or bad tem per. Main feature of its extraordinary growth has been the tendency of basket ball to grow more violent every year. The winter's noisiest basketball row broke last week. Undefeated in 20 games, New York University's team of one Swede, one Irishman and eight Jews lost to Georgetown, 36-10-34. Aftermath was a sizzling editorial in one of N. Y. U.'s four campus papers charging that the "health and safety of the players...
When the Washington Daily News delightedly broke this story, Senator Borah dismissed it as nonsense. Newshawks-ap-pealed to Mrs. Borah. Bubbled she: "It would be too bad to spoil such a beautiful, sensational story. It happened right between our house and Kalorama corner on busy Connecticut Avenue. It was one of those bitter nights...