Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closer examination of Jaakko's squad, a good basis for optimism can be found. Bob Playfair, pace-setter and captain of the Crimson pack, broke the HYP tape last year and was undefeated until he sunk spike in the Van Cortlandt Park Intercollegiate track. It was there that hills, the old Crimson cross country bugaboo, proved to be too stiff a handicap and forced him back to twentieth place. This year, however, Bob has been leading his teammates over the grassy slopes of the Brookline Country Club, loping over bunkers with apparent case and utter disregard of the Brookline Motor...
Still chief of Carr's worries is that of his attacking forward berths. Manheimer, cagey with the ball, is a good enough center, but he broke into Harvard soccer at right outside, that's where he belongs, and that's where he rates as one of the classiest players in intercollegiate soccer...
...State payrolls if they work for their salaries. Just how hard Ohio State athletes work for their stipends was debatable. Governor Davey followed up his blast with a pious assurance that all were usefully employed. But Ohioans recalled that after Ohio State's great Negro sprinter, Jesse Owens, broke three world records, the House of Representatives quietly changed his status from page to honorary page at $3 per day in session...
...successful Le Kwtz. During the run of that play, Mortier learned that Edward VII, incognito in Paris, planned to visit his small theatre. Mortier hung out the Union Jack in preparation. Before the curtain rose, stately white-bearded King Leopold of Belgium unexpectedly appeared, seemed puzzled when the orchestra broke into God Save the King and Mortier, out of his head, jabbered, "It's not you!" At the height of this confusion Edward VII arrived, almost went unnoticed until Mortier, shouting "Vive le Roil" ran back and forth crying, "I have two kings...
...Assurance Society, the reorganization of New York City's Interborough Rapid Transit, municipal financing, giving the impression that such labors were equally tedious to biographer and hero. Morrow's career in France during the War and as Ambassador seems to interest Nicolson more. In Mexico Morrow ruthlessly broke diplomatic traditions, communicated with the State Department by telephone, buttonholed minor officials, made friends with President Calles, effectively neutralized Mexican hostility to the U. S. A nervous man, he had a strange habit of tearing off the corners of papers he read, rolling them in his fingers, putting them...