Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sears found this out by showing his subjects jokes which were flashed on the screen by a stereoptician. At the critical moment the machine broke down. When the machine resumed operation, the point of the story was revealed. The subjects were ask to rate the story on a simple scale indicating whether is was very funny, in different, or very poor...
...Hull, England, fortnight ago, a crowd of about 300 gathered in the early morning before the prison yard to watch the flagstaff. Many were praying. Two unarmed policemen with their thumbs stuck purposefully in their belts kept the crowd in order. At 9 o'clock a black flag broke out on the staff. By that signal spectators knew that, despite a blizzard of petitions to the Lord Mayor of Hull, to the Home Secretary, to King George himself, Mrs. Ethel Lille Major had died on the gallows for poisoning her truckdriver husband, first woman to be executed in England...
...hasty in calling for aid, for her mother was not quite dead when the ambulance arrived. The girl stole 1,500 francs from her dead father's wallet and spent a riotous week in Montmartre bistros, living successively with a German, a Negro, an Egyptian. She broke with each in turn when he expressed the hope that the police would catch the murderess about whom all the papers were writing. Finally a young student recognized her from her published photographs, turned her over to the police...
...read and discussed 1,200 papers on subjects ranging from the folklore of Schoharie County, N. Y., to sarcomatous changes in mammary adenomas. Many an industrial and academic research laboratory had exhibits. Harold Clayton Urey, newest U. S. Nobel Laureate, was there. When the apparatus for making heavy water broke down he fixed it. Nobelman Robert Andrews Millikan was 'there to talk about cosmic rays, show the latest apparatus for research in artificial radioactivity. On hand was many another bigwig. But the name on everyone's tongue was that of Albert Einstein. The great German journeyed from...
...year age you heard little else round the swimming pool but stories of the exploits of Edward E. (Esty) Stowell '34, who consistently broke his own record and came within a hair of breaking the world's mark for the back-stroke. When Coach Ulen wasn't talking about Stowell, he was marvelling at George C. Scott '34, who came up from a House team to astonish tire coach as a sprint star. In his Junior year, Scott was just another swimmer for Lowell House. In his Senior year he took both short distance events at the Eastern Intercollegiates...