Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Public Record. As county attorney he closed up his share of gambling houses, took a hand in labor disputes. He broke up a Communist group in a meatpackers' union. During the milk strikes of the early 1930s, he walked into a meeting of angry farmers, warned that he would prosecute any violence, but offered to represent them without a fee. He got milk prices raised 30? a hundredweight...
...Felton set a new Harvard record in the hammer against Rhode Island State in the Stadium Saturday, but it was novel-writing Captain Frank Gurley who broke up the meet and gave the Crimson a 74 to 66 win. The loss was Rhode island State's first in 12 years of dual competition...
...April shower broke one day in Manhattan, falling impartially on thousands, including Henry Edwards Huntington. To keep his white mustachios dry, portly "H.E." ducked into an art gallery. Before he ducked out again, he had been sold a Raeburn portrait. Thus impulsively, in 1908, began one of the world's great collecting careers...
...morning last week, before the dew was off the bluegrass at Kentucky's Keeneland track, a bay colt broke and ran. Stop watches ticked away. The naked eye could tell what the watches verified: that the bay colt was really covering ground. Coaltown worked five furlongs in the fastest training time-:58 2/5-ever run at Keeneland. Warren Wright's Calumet Farm, which seems to have a monopoly on racing's fastest horses (Armed, Bewitch, Citation, Fervent and Faultless), had developed another...
...batman in World War II. He spoke tenderly of a doting old aunt, whose senile eccentricity caused her to send him blank postcards at regular intervals. Harriet never saw these two people, but at last she noticed that whenever her husband received a card from his crazy aunt, he broke any previous engagement and paid a visit to-the crippled...