Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Allen Treadway, whose State party leaders made an election alliance with the Townsendites, showed what was likely to happen when Congress receives the committee's report. Trying to shout down a group of Democrats, Republican Treadway and his party members made so much noise that Chairman Doughton almost broke his gavel pleading: "Order! Gentlemen, Gentlemen, we will have order...
...Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, 26, niece of Queen Elizabeth of England; to Kenneth Harington, 27-year-old British socialite; for the second time; in London. Because "love in a cottage" would not be good enough for the Hon. Cecilia, Harington, then a junior assistant in the diplomatic corps, suddenly broke off their first engagement in 1937. Then he went to work for a metal corporation...
...Freshmen meet Worcester Academy at 3:15 at Worcester . . . The Penn team arrived yesterday and practiced in the Holyoke Street bath all afternoon . . . . Williams will have more fun this year than last, when Hutter was continually beating him . . . . Yale submerged Brown Wednesday. The Bruins who broke the Crimson winning streak bowed 51 to 24. Outstanding Eli times: a 2:58 medley, a 2:17.7 furlong, a 52.8 century, and of course 123.6 points for Danny Endweiss, Yale's persistently perfect plunger. The New Haven team today meets Michigan at Ann Arbor and is likely to return to Connecticut Monday...
Soupbone. A ten-year-old boy with an infected humerus (upper-arm bone) broke his arm while throwing a cricket ball. Dr. Groves cut and shaped two pieces of beef-bone, scraped out some marrow in each end of the boy's broken humerus, drove one piece of beef-bone up the humerus, the other down, and joined them together with metal bolts. The boy recovered in six weeks and within ten years the beef-bone was almost entirely absorbed in new bone tissue which had grown around it. The metal bolts remained embedded in the bone...
...House swimming team went down to defeat at the hands of a strong Exeter team Saturday, 53-13, as Jim Skinner, Exeter breaststroker, broke his own pool record for 100 yards by swimming the distance...