Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second game yesterday, Leverett and Winthrop stood at 7 to 7 in the last half of the fifth inning when a Levereet batter broke the only available indoor bat. The game will be continued tomorrow...
...years since the glaciers receded. As beavers still do, they built dams. When one pond filled up they went a little farther upstream and built another. When the whole valley was a series of muddy terraces the beavers went off to another stream. Then the stream broke through the dams one by one and carried a huge load of silt down to the bottom of the valley, forming an alluvial plain...
...settling this and other questions, 1,300 Methodists gathered in Nashville, Tenn. for the largest banquet the city had ever seen. It was the first time the three branches of Methodism had met officially since the Methodist Protestants split off in 1828 (over lay representation) and the Southern Methodists broke away in 1845 (over slavery). Two Negro Methodist bishops sat among the banquet guests of honor. No Southerner complained...
...soldierly Duke of Gloucester, best rider-to-hounds in his family, broke his collar bone when his horse slipped on mud after ably taking a fence near famed Melton Mowbray. Result: he got out of going to Queen Maud's funeral and smooth Brother Kent had to go instead. Still rooting for the underprivileged, the Duke of Windsor asked a British workingman & family to spend a jolly Christmas with him and the Duchess at their Château La Cröe, near Cap d'Antibes, French Riviera...
...Franklin Roosevelt that the Reserve had not been consulted until two days before SEC cut loose. Here was the sort of division in the enemy's ranks which a great fighter like Amadeo Giannini could not fail to spot. Holding his tongue with difficulty as Transamerica stock broke a hefty $30,000,000 worth, he limited himself to snapping: "We are firmly of the belief that the motive behind this complaint is one calculated definitely to prejudice Transamerica Corp. in the eyes of the public...