Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Levertt House's muscular Bunnies broke a three-all tie in the late innings yesterday when one man singled, another walked, and Gordon Neal belted a mighty double scoring both runners, to give Leverett a 5 to 3 win over Lowell...
...Mockery of Munich. Some in the West still have great faith in "sitting down with the Russians and talking things out." They forget that the West tried this for two postwar years, always with the result that Russia broke her promises almost before they were made and gained invaluable strategic positions in the process. Harry Truman last week, for no obvious reason, announced that he was always ready to meet Joe Stalin (in Washington). Newsmen in the U.S. and in Europe speculated that the Kremlin might propose a meeting in, say, Scandinavia. Suppose the Russians did decide to play thus...
...ever broke the bank at Monte Carlo, but last week the management of the famed gambling Casino felt as if someone had. For the second time in its 85 years, it was in the red. In its last fiscal year, the Casino lost some 136,000,000 francs (about $450,000 at current rates), almost twice as much as in its other red-ink year...
...issue, the stockmarket was falling and so was K-F stock. Eaton called off the sale. Witnesses before SEC said they heard him say: "We would be just damned fools to go through with this deal ... I would rather have a lawsuit on my hands than be dead broke." Eaton's own lawyer testified: Eaton had asked him if there was any escape clause in the underwriting contract with K-F. Eaton reportedly said he was going over it with a "fine-tooth comb" to look for an out. (An out developed the following Monday when a Philadelphia lawyer...
...gargantuan Dartmouth midfield squad broke loose in the third period of Saturday's lacrosse game, scored seven times, and handed the Crimson Varsity its second league loss of the season, this one by a 14 to 3 count...