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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drawn up with loaded rifles. As the mob approached. General Manuel Contreras shouted: "Justice will be meted out to this prisoner! Justice will be meted out to this prisoner!" but the crowd swept on. A volley crashed out over their heads, then another straight at the leaders. The crowd broke. Dead in the gutter lay Romano Maldonado, 8; Salvadore Vasquez, 14; Vidal Torres, 56. Fourteen others lay wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Death at Aunty Jane | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...broke the hill record by 19 ft. and clinched the championship with a total of 229.8 points (based on best distance and form in two jumps). Six out of the first ten placed were Ruud's countrymen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Norwegian Jumpers | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...other games of the afternoon the Deacons downed Eliot 14-8, as Stubbs broke an 8 to 8 tie with some effective shelling in the closing moments. Winthrop pulled the Rabbits' ears with a 23 to 15 victory, with Peden and Stix showing the way, and Hartmann Schmidt starring for the losers. Led by Piper and Harold Stubbs, Lowell downed the Funster five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 2/26/1938 | See Source »

...clever parliamentary maneuver that the group in favor of the oath managed to stop the measure dead in its tracks. After a rising vote in which members of the upper house voted 17-17, President Wragg broke the deadlock by speaking up for repeal. Immediately Senator Halvey of Rowley who had abstained from voting on the first and second readings recorded himself as against the bill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENATE DEADLOCK BLOCKS MOVE TO REPEAL OATH LAW | 2/25/1938 | See Source »

With Andover underfoot, the Freshman track team Saturday vanquished the Exeter team 68 1/2 to 26 1/2, taking first in every event. Rolla Campbell broke the Exeter Cage record in the 600 yard run in 1:17.3. Bob Partlow continued to dominate both jumps winning the high-jump at 6 ft. and the broad-jump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '41 Track Downs Exeter | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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