Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Illinois State Fair at Springfield, Greyhound broke the world's record for 3-year-old geldings by trotting a mile in 2 min. flat (TIME, Aug. 23). Carnivals grossed $50,000 for an all-time record. Attendance was up to 810,000 which was 175,000 more than last year...
...start of the dangerous Bendix Trophy Race across the nation to Cleveland in the opening event of the 15th annual National Air Races. Presently the fog began to lift, allowed the nine racers to take off in the dark. Last to roar down the field, just as dawn broke, was Pilot Cecil A. Allen, 33, alone in a tiny, fat, Gee Bee monoplane, immensely powerful, but frowned on by the air-wise because of its radical design. Down the runway it careened like an insane bumblebee, finally bouncing into the air at the very end. Three minutes later, still...
...three, was arrested on the charge of having stolen a 75-lb. steel safe from Frank Werner, carried it down five flights of stairs to a taxi, up four flights to her own apartment, then down again and by subway to a friend's apartment where she broke it open...
...Maharaja & friend pushed by a doorkeeper, swept down the aisle to their seats in the first row. Toscanini, who had lifted his baton to begin the last movement of a Mozart symphony, heard the commotion, turned around to glare, bowed ironically, growled: "Well, I can wait." The sympathetic audience broke into loud cheers which for a moment the flustered Maharaja seemed to take as a personal ovation. Then the flashing-eyed Maestro turned back, flung his orchestra into the Mozart, whirled them through it at angry top speed...
...medicine. He learned medicine and surgery "from executioners, bathkeepers, gypsies, midwives, and fortune tellers and incidentally acquired an unusual knowledge of folk-medicine and a permanent taste for low company." He believed in gnomes, sylvans, sprites, salamanders, macrocosms, microcosms. He knew botany, alchemy. He feared no man and he broke the laws of his profession, his Government and his God. Before he died as the result of being stabbed in a tavern fight, Paracelsus had bullied European doctors into using chemicals in scientific fashion...