Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Ted was a sophomore at the State University of Iowa, his father went broke in the postwar crash of land prices. Gallup made his own way with a towel service in the college locker room, later as editor of the Daily lowan. He transformed the lowan from a routine college puff sheet into a paper with national news. He began to get interested in why people read certain stories-and how many and which ones they actually do read. After graduation he stayed on at Iowa as a graduate student in psychology...
That isn't all. Pudgy hammer-thrower Jim Burnham has broken the Dartmouth record in his event this spring and last week he won the Penn Relays hammer throw at about 171 feet. He may scare Sam Felton into hitting 180 feet today. Felton broke the Harvard record two weeks ago with a shot of 175 feet, 2 inches. This competition, plus the Kimball versus Pat McCormick duel in the 120 high and 220 low hurdles should provide the most spectator interest this afternoon...
Crimson hitting is perhaps the strongest part of the local game. Walt Coulson and Cliff Crosby have both showed good power, and Lennie Lunder and John Caulfield have each hit in the clutch in the last two weeks. Lunder broke up the Colby game with a tenth-inning double, while Caulfield dumped a clean single into center Tuesday to drive in two runs in the ninth against Northeastern...
...fact that the Crimson Varsity shell broke a course record in beating Princeton Saturday doesn't seem to be enough to give Tom Bolles much confidence about treating Cornell the same way tomorrow. Apparently you never know how your crew is going to perform the next time...
Jose Soriano and Henrik Reynders as wing forwards broke up a number of Princeton plays after the Tiger scrum had heeled the ball out to their ace scrum half John Cotter...