Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Garfield Memorial Hospital last week was as solid as arctic ice, but a friend to his friends, an honest foe to his foes, a tender father to his incurably ill daughter Margaret. Legends accumulated around softer men, not around Pierce Butler-except about his enthusiastic, notorious golf (he never broke 110), which he endured with almost masochistic resignation...
...second down, Spreyer prudently kicked from the goal line to Yale's 32 where the Crimson line again broke through to smash all running plays. Yale was forced to kick, and against the wind Seymour booted to Macdonald on the 35-yard line...
...series of line smashes, the Elis eaked out the first first-down of the game, crossing midfield to the Harvard 45, and then without a receiver in sight Burr broke through for an 8-yard gain. Off his own right side, Seymour dashed 22 yards to the Harvard...
...College curriculum. One was the rise of Unitarianism in the early nineteenth century. With the appointment of the liberal Henry Ware as professor of Theology, this denomination came to dominate Harvard teaching. The old-line Trinitarians, feeling that they must train young men in the true faith, broke away from the College proper to form the Andover Seminary. With the old Puritan discipline gone, religious teaching in the College completely changed its form. The Unitarian faith, strongly tied up with Emersonian Transcendentalism, was easily shunted off into the Department of Philosophy...
...U.S.S.R. After four days without so much as seeing either Joseph Stalin or Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov, but having made it clear that there were some things that could not be surrendered, even by the weak to the strong, the delegates left for Helsinki. Negotiations, indefinitely postponed, apparently broke down on Russia's demands for a naval base at or near Finland's best port, Hangö. "What would the English think," asked Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko, "if the Isle of Wight were in foreign hands, or Americans if Sandy Hook were in the same position...