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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adams raequetmen came through strong yesterday, trouncing Dunster 4-1 in two matches--one in League A and the other in League C. Kirkland and Leverett broke even, each garnering a match. The League C Kirkland outfit definitely outplayed its opponents with a score of 4-1; but Leverett eked out a 3-2 win in League A to even up the day's play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudley Sluggers Win, Tie for Lead--Adams Wins in Squash | 12/10/1935 | See Source »

...morning last week a chilly dawn broke over a jerkwater Georgia town on the Southern Railroad. The main street, two ribbons of concrete with newly planted evergreens growing between them, led off at right angles from the track. Fronting on its brief course were the low brick facades of the drug store with its awning, the post office with its green shades, the bank with its blank windows, the general store with its metal canopy, the grocery stores, the filling stations. But in one respect this small town was different: the tourists asleep in the rooms over the drug store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Game of Polio | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...length, after swearing for a few minutes, he seized an empty bottle that was standing on the mantlepiece and broke it off about half way, leaving the neck and a jagged edge in his hand. He turned to the host...

Author: By Fanny Masters, | Title: The Crime | 12/6/1935 | See Source »

...fire broke out at Jefferson Physics laboratory yesterday, when a beaker of wax ignited, but the blaze war soon quenched...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAX STAETS SMALL BLAZE | 12/3/1935 | See Source »

...leave the house because he had no clothes. Once, after a publisher had agreed to take one of his books, he could not raise money enough to mail the manuscript. In five years three of the children died, Marx suffered from piles, boils, indigestion, liver trouble. His wife broke down after the death of her favorite son. In this, as in most crises, Engels saved them. Determining to make money, Engels became a manufacturer in Manchester, a member of the Stock Exchange, on the surface lived the typical life of a well-to-do Englishman, which included frequent fox-hunts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Red Father | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

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