Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale's medley relay team recently broke the college record with a time of 3:02.6. Harvard's best has been 2:57.4, but Princeton has done it in 2:56.2, taking the intercollegiate record away from the Crimson mermen. Columbia has done...
...almost two years she was held, while the ice drifted slowly north, and when at last she broke free, leaking like a sieve, another pack crushed her like a giant nutcracker, heaved her almost above the surface, then opened again to let her plunge to the bottom...
Laid against this background of Spanish disorder, Mr. Witt Among The Rebels is a deft little novel that can be read as a political study, as a love story about a discreet Englishman and an elemental Spanish girl, or as a cool satire on liberals. When the revolution broke out, Mr. Witt was a consulting engineer in the naval arsenal, a cultured, book-collecting, slightly bald Victorian gentleman of 53, whose one adventurous act had been to marry Milagritos, 18 years younger than himself. Warm-blooded and grey-eyed, Milagritos was a lovely puzzle for Mr. Witt. At once serene...
...first hour on duty, her patient died, and where she tried to lessen a soldier's agony by reciting Dickens to him while his arm was being amputated without an anesthetic. Bronson Alcott returned from his trips across the U. S. in times of peace, usually broke but refreshed and inspired; his daughter came home from her glimpse of the wartime U. S. sick, neurotic, her health permanently affected...
...popular success but none of the intellectual following she deserved and needed. At 56 her nerves and health collapsed. Shut away in a darkened house in Roxbury, her acute illness unknown to the world, she died two days after her father, who wanted none of the things she broke her heart trying...