Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles County 30 people died and the city went through a two-day nightmare, in which rail, telephone and mail service broke down almost completely. For one afternoon the city's means of communication with the outside world was by radio, which was swamped with more messages than it could handle. At Pasadena the Rose Bowl was threatened when a torrential overflow from Devil's Gate Dam was turned aside with sandbags. Sixty miles north of the city a sudden landslide crashed on and nearly buried a bus whose 26 passengers amazingly escaped injury. At Glendale, floodwaters...
Emotions affect the skin by first disturbing the sympathetic nervous system, then the blood vessels, muscles and nutrition of the skin itself. The reaction is a kind of bad habit, according to Dr. Bernstein, and hard to break. One of his patients, whom he cites as example, broke out in hives every time she recalled the time a burglar robbed her bedroom. Bleeding of the hands, feet, chest and forehead of religious ecstatics, corresponding to the Crucifixion wounds, are the result of hysteria, writes Dr. Bernstein, and "represent an identification with Christ on the part of the patient." Another...
Last week the news broke on U. S. front pages that Mr. Hearst, now nearly 75 and busily engaged in putting his affairs in order, had decided to sell or otherwise dispose of at least two-thirds of all his art. Estimated value of the lot: $15,000,000. If Mr. Hearst succeeds in his disposals his estate will have to pay inheritance taxes on only $5,000,000 worth of art objects. Just when the auctioneer's hammer will begin to fall was not stated, because after three months of work Mr. Hearst's agent, Manhattan Dealer...
...story ragtime is to the Negroes of the South. But the first man to write ragtime down on paper was a slick-haired Kentuckian, Ben Harney, whose songs Mr. Johnson Turn Me Loose and You've Been a Good Old Wagon, but You've Done Broke Down were hits in the gay 'nineties. Last week 66-year-old Harney, forgotten in the era of swing, died of heart disease in a Philadelphia rooming house...
...previous encounter between the two fives, Dartmouth edged the Varsity 43-42. But last night before a near capacity crowd of 2000, the largest of the season, the score was evened as the Crimson broke a three game losing streak to advance into second place with six wins and five losses...