Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then Queen Elizabeth made her first speech, and exercised the Royal prerogative to break a date. The date she broke was engraved in six-inch letters on the cornerstone of the new Supreme Court building which will rise on a bluff overlooking the Ottawa River. Unwary of the fact that Their Majesties' visit might be delayed, engravers had marked the stone as laid on May 19. Blithely, with an ivory-handled gold trowel, the Queen tapped the stone on May 20, declared it laid, chatted with a Scottish stone mason whose accent moved her to remark: "You haven...
...brilliant past means anything, Jim Lightbody will be a fitting successor to Haydock. Son of an Olympic runner, Lightbody broke his back in high school and seemed shut out of track for life. As a Freshman he had already overcome this handicap when he made the Oxford-Cambridge meet; for two years now he has been unbeatable over the 440 and 880 distances...
...been chosen to lead the 1940 linksmen. Cordingley came to Harvard from Exeter and won Freshman numerals in football, basketball, and golf. In the 1937-38 athletic year he competed in Jayvee football, Jayvee basketball, and varsity golf, winning a minor H in each sport. Last fall he broke his leg in football scrimmage and was not able to participate in any sports until this spring...
There the home boys broke a 6 to 6 deadlock by using a walk, a ball, a freak fleider choice, and an error to manufacture a run. In the seventh the Crimson had finally overcome their four un deficit when Gane Lovett's liner got away from Holy Cross' right fielder, Ray Monaco, and let four Harvard runs rickle across the plate...
Saturday's game was the first appearance in the last seven games for veteran outfielder Bob Gannett and he celebrated his return by getting three hits in five trips to the plate. Fred Heckel broke into the lineup because Johns started the game on the mound