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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cost of keeping alive, like the cost of living, had gone up since 1801. It had gone up even since that day, 100 months ago, when the dawn broke over Puck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL DEFENSE: For A-Day | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

When the congress broke up, most delegates looked tired but happy. Said Thorez: "An excellent piece of work has been done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Peace Front | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Iraq's twelve-year-old King Feisal, in Switzerland on a winter vacation, went skiing at Villars, broke his left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Inside the house, after the gifts were given to the coach, Mrs. Mikkola reciprocated by plying the track members with hot cocoa and coffee, and home-made Finnish cookies and pastries. The party broke up early, with the guests hurrying back into Cambridge to get at the books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cake For The Coach | 1/16/1948 | See Source »

...idea was not original with Dr. Brown. Others have conjectured that a good-sized planet may once have revolved in the orbit (between Mars and Jupiter) now cluttered with little asteroids. When the planet broke up (for an unknown reason), the bigger chunks became asteroids; some of the smaller remains stampeded around the solar system as maverick meteors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Planets & Paramecia | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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