Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...understood that no game will be arranged to take its place so there will be no more trials of strength for the Crimson nine until Friday, April 19. One case of measles appeared on the B.U. squad yesterday and this, on top of the two days of rain, broke the camel's back and the game was given up. There is to be another match played however, at the Terrier ball park on May 24 since the original agreement was for a home and home series...
...amazing technique. He proved his maturity to New Yorkers last month when he played with Arturo Toscanini and gave real contemplation to Brahms's First Concerto. He proved himself again in Chicago last week where audiences cheered him wildly. For the Chicago concerts motherly Signora Toscanini broke precedent and left the Maestro working in Manhattan to hear her new son-in-law play in the Midwest...
...Hamburg-American liner Vaterland, was the biggest ship afloat when she steamed out of Cuxhaven on her maiden trip to New York. She was nearly 1,000 ft. long, carried 2,646 passengers, drew 48,942 tons. On her third trip to New York the War broke and her owners tied her up at Hoboken for safekeeping...
These two west-coasters have established a fight for records that had its culmination last week when Gilhula, swimming in the 20-yard Southern California pool broke 16 American marks in the course of a mile's swim...
...lunch. Suddenly for no apparent reason one trader sprang forward to the ring, announced he would sell cotton for 11.80? per lb. - 20 points below the price at which that staple has been virtually pegged by the Government for seven months. A violent wave of selling broke over the market, uncovering nests of stop orders. The price fell 10 to 20 points on each transaction. May contracts sank to 10.25?. Brokers snouted themselves hoarse as orders to sell poured in from the South, from Europe, from the Orient. Near-panic spread to the New Orleans Cotton Market, to the Stock...