Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite Smith's win, Penn State was only able to gain fifth place in the team standings as Manhattan broke Michigan State's five year monopoly on the championship. Following Manhattan's low of 43 points came Michigan State, Pittsburgh, Alfred, Penn State, Syracuse, Cornell, Maine, Yale, Princeton, and Harvard. Seventeen colleges in all competed with 125 representatives...
...William Osler died, broken-hearted by the death of his son, Revere, in the War. Halsted, who had once been addicted to cocaine but heroically broke himself of the habit, followed in 1922. Four years ago, at the age of 84, William Henry Welch died of cancer of the prostate in Johns Hopkins Hospital. Still hale & hearty at 80 is the last of the Big Four, Howard Atwood Kelly, father of the modern science of gynecology. Long retired from active practice, he has entrusted his work to several generations of professional sons whom he brought...
...night. Water began to drip on Paolo's neck. He looked for the annoying source, could not find it, went damply muttering back to bed. Next night the same thing happened again. This time he traced the water to a hole in the ceiling. Paolo Motta rushed upstairs, broke into the room above, found one of his popular bride's disgruntled suitors standing over the hole with a pitcher of water...
Winthrop received a break in the third period when a Deacon center went heavenwards, scaling over McClure's head for the goal. Winthrop recovered on the 20, but could not dent the Deacon line. Pete Wentworth, Kirkland left and, broke up the interferers, while Thompson drove in to grab the runner on the final running play...
...Winthrop, they climbed the fence to open a window, but in the Leverett House room the raiders broke the pane, after climbing to the second story from a nearby shed...