Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since hostilities broke out in Manchuria between China and Japan, Stalin has concentrated his attention on foreign policy. Since 1930 no diplomatic step has been taken without directions from Stalin. The Dictator has been profoundly disturbed by the repeated humiliations to which Japan has subjected Russian prestige in the Far East. He certainly counts on a Japanese attack. His whole strategy is therefore directed toward creating the most favorable attitude possible toward Russia in Europe in order to be able to meet the danger of Japanese provocation with as little risk as possible...
Trapped, Captain Rodney knocked out a window pane with his bare hands, gashing the arteries in his wrists. He handed Mrs. Rodney out to a 20-ft. jump which nearly broke her back. He then jumped himself and lay weltering in his blood until rushed to a hospital, where he died...
...third period drive by the Crimson ice forces that broke the tie hauging over from the second frame swept Harvard to a 4-1 victory over M.I.T. in its opening game at the Boston Arena last night before a small crowd of only a few hundred fans. Arthur F. Duffey, Jr. '36 was high scorer of the evening, totaling one goal and one assist...
...some 15 years Tod Sloan has been broke. His third wife and daughter Anna, 10, have long been cared for by Mrs. J. P. Cudahy of the packing family. Now and then he picked up a little money as a racetrack tipster, a baseball umpire, a film extra. Once he and his good friend "Kid McCoy," oldtime prizefighter and ex-convict, were in such straits that McCoy wheedled climes from a street crowd to view "the strangest dwarf in the world." When he showed them Sloan, McCoy explained: "I bet you never saw such a big dwarf in your life...
...Philadelphia ladies were speech less until their guests had left. Then broke out an indignant babble: "Mortifying! . . . Impudent! . . . Worst insult!" Said Mrs. George Horace Lorimer: "Miss Barrymore's last two plays have been unfortunately chosen and Philadelphians do not like them. Hence Miss Barrymore is resentful...