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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time, all-American milk swilier. Interviewed in his Kirkland House room yesterday, he confessed, "I seldom drink less than seven glasses of milk per meal. As long as I can remember I always drank a lot of milk--even before I was weaned. I started young and never broke the habit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: He Drinks Milk! | 2/17/1939 | See Source »

...hopes-but speculators, who might well have gotten out of the market after the TIMEline's sharp drop in April, would have missed the 30 to 40 point rise that took place subsequently. Chart readers would have noted that the TIMEline in September 1929, before the market crash, broke through its previous bottom (made in August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: ANNOUNCEMENT | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...week full of important utility events (see p. 58), North American's successful reshaping was not the least significant. It was: 1) the first publicly offered bond issue of 1939, and thus broke the capital market's ominous stagnation; 2) the first major public utility holding company financing since passage of the death sentence drove the industry into financial hibernation four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Two-story Pyramid | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Hartley, Neb., while John Proud milked his cow, the cow stepped on a cat's tail. The cat scratched the cow. The cow kicked at the cat, struck John Proud's wife, broke her left leg. As Proud pulled his wife out of further harm's way, the cow kicked again, broke the left leg of John Proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

News of a possibly non-alcoholic Carnival broke too late to prevent the usual exodus from Northampton, Wellesely, and Poughkeepsie. Outing Club officials said that the festival was as "gay, popular, and boisterous as ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carnival's Prompt Telegram Averts Week End Crisis | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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