Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...network member, speaking unofficially, opined that the theft could conceivably have been pulled by some one on the inside. WHRV officials rushed to deny this, pointing out that anyone familiar with the studio would have known that nothing valuable was kept in the room which the thief broke into...
...contempt in those lines epitomizes the tragic failure of Vinegar Joe Stilwell, a brave soldier who broke his heart on a job a hundred times too big for him. The deeper tragedy was that Stilwell's colossal failure contributed to the war-born misunderstanding between the U.S. and China; a misunderstanding which has already brought a disaster to China and may have consequences for the U.S. as well...
...Arbor, Mich., La Salle College's Joe Verdeur, 22, broke his own world's record in winning the N.C.A.A. 200-yard breaststroke championship and was voted "outstanding college swimmer of 1948." Team winner of the meet: Michigan...
...lockout" took place when Management-Union negotiations for a new contract broke down. Employees had pressed for a 10 percent wage increase for kitchen workers, a 40 hour, five day week for all others, and a group insurance plan...
Although he is generally quite happy ever the results of the program, some events have left Dr. Thorndike in despair. A certain Eliot House veteran, after exercising a shattered arm into workable condition during the school year, wound up in a summer vacation accident and re-broke the limb in an identical place. He's hard at work again right now, with a good chance of regaining full use of the limb...