Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where it caught a crab. The first Freshman crew took up the lead here and held it for a half-dozen strokes, but they, too, caught a crab here and it was the second Freshman that was first across the line. One of the men in the third Freshman broke an oar near the start...
...second half Kirkland came back strongly and evened the count when Wiley E. Mayne '38 broke through the right side of the line, outsprinted the secondary, and shook off the safety man to cross the line standing up after a 75-yard jaunt...
Team A, with Hedblom, Blackwood and Ford working smoothly on both offense and defense, pushed across two touchdowns. Ford passed to Knapp for 18 yards and a score for the first six points, and on the final play of the scrimmage, Ford broke loose for a run of 30 yards to add the second tally...
...later he arrived by airplane at Oshkosh. Amid a wild honking of horns he motored to his birthplace at small Ripon, Wis., had a park named for him, received an L.H.D. from Ripon College. That night, at a banquet during the course of which an overtaxed lighting system thrice broke down, white-thatched Dr. Selfridge delighted Riponese by his vocabulary of U. S. slang...
...Harper Intercollegiate Short Story Contest in 1925, her aging, domineering father thundered at her: "You know I consider writers and artists the maggots of society!" But on the last day of his life, when he was demented with pain, disease and alcohol, "Old Jules'' Sandoz broke down and urged her to tell the story of his struggles as a homesteader and community builder, in the desolate Running Water region of western Nebraska. Last week his daughter fulfilled his wish with a biography that won the Atlantic $5,000 Non-Fiction Prize, became the November choice of the Book...