Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Valpey broke his squad into two parts for yesterday's drill. Those who had not played on offense Saturday scrimmaged the Jayvees, while those who had seen action on the offensive against Dartmouth polished their attack against dummies...
...hydrodynamic data, Kuiper concluded that the cloud around the nascent sun passed through a stage with about one-third of the system's matter forming a thin, pancake-shaped disc like the rings of Saturn. The disc, said Kuiper, grew denser and denser until it became unstable and broke into whirling eddies...
Three times in the past five years, Presbrey has "just been riding by" in a streetcar when million-dollar fires broke out in the sprawling industrial area known as the Midway, between Minneapolis and St. Paul. In 1945, while watching a St. Paul movie one evening, Presbrey stirred nervously in his seat, decided that he had better go out in the street and have a look around. He walked right into a $500,000 department-store fire...
Leading the market were the television shares, notably Admiral Corp., which declared a 100% stock dividend. For those who still swore by the Dow theory, regardless of its confusing "signals," there was also reason to cheer. The railroad average, lagging behind the industrial, now broke through last March's "resistance" point. To some Dow theorists, that was a sign that a bull market was in the making...
Fortunately, nobody for a change was permanently put out of action. Early in the first quarter, Davis tackled Dartmouth fullback Carey with what amounted to his face, and Carey's cleats broke his nose. But a specialist was called out of the stands, and set the bone in the record time of four minutes, just about as fast as it took to hook a nose guard onto his helmet. He played the rest of the game...