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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a turnout of 150, the Sports Rally at Dudley Hall yesterday afternoon broke all records for any gathering at the new Commuter Center. Robert R. Shapiro '36, chairman of the Dudley Hall Athletic Committee, introduced the speakers and conducted the meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUDLEY HALL SPORTS RALLY ATTRACTS 150 | 2/6/1936 | See Source »

Nine days before Uruguay broke off relations, Comrade Minkin cabled again: THE PRESIDENT'S SECRETARY INFORMS ME OUR REFUSAL TO GRANT HIS REQUEST REGARDING CHEESE IS INTERPRETED AS A FRESH DISPLAY OF LACK OF CONSIDERATION TOWARD HIMSELF AND MAY WEAKEN HIS ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF MAINTENANCE OF RELATIONS BETWEEN URUGUAY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Diplomatic Billingsgate | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...race, "jams" & sprints for small prizes are encouraged. When a contestant is injured a siren stops the jam, the contestant's teammate takes the track. Most serious fall in Chicago's current Roller Derby occurred last week when a Mrs. Albie Whitney crashed into a railing, broke her shoulder. She and her husband, last married couple in the race, withdrew. Only family team left was 39-year-old Mrs. Josephine Bogash, wife of a Wabash R. R. fireman, teamed with her 19-year-old son Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Roller Derby | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...same trunk with his spangled leotards and high-laced gilt boots. Every minute that he could snatch from the theatre he spent in museums or sketching in the country. Strongman Hoyer likes to boast that he has seen every famed painting in the world. His sextet broke up a few years after 1902 when it first arrived in the U. S. Torvald Hoyer became Understander for the Yoskary Trio, an Italian act. In 1915 he put away liniment and leotard for good, settled in Chicago. At present he works four days a week in a factory, and at his show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Neoterics' Acrobat | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

When Holtz had Howerth's laboratory burned down to get rid of a corpse that might be even uglier if found, Howerth risked his life to save his deadly but still beloved serum, and was blinded for his pains. When a sudden and fatal epidemic broke out in one of Holtz's destitute mining towns, the few who knew what Howerth had been up to began to suspect that Holtz had taken over the experiment. While Howerth and his assistants worked feverishly to find an antivirus for the plague, Holtz wiped out his human liabilities by the thousand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Germs | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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