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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yards. Breast stroker Larry Ward may still work into the lineup, and backstroker Tom Woods is the leading backstroker. Woods has other distinctions besides being the third College man to bear his name, and son of Thomas S. Woods, JF, an all-American Crimson football player in 1920. He broke the Freshman backstroke record on his own again in last year's Bulldog sinking with 2:39.4. Diving mentor Bernie Kelley, although disconsolate over the loss of Bob Aaron, still has one of the best board men ever to mount the tower in Tom Drohan, who should have numerous high...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/4/1947 | See Source »

...both attacks dissolved until the final seconds of the first period, when two well-executed plays by the Moseley, Huntington and Abbet line failed narrowly. Again, this brought B.C. to life, and this time it was only two brilliant saves by goalie Jack Lavalle, a standout all night, that broke up unassisted thrusts by Johnny McIntyre...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Sextet Humbles Favored Boston College, 4 to 3, As Barclay's Quintet Subdues Engineers, 57-46 | 12/4/1947 | See Source »

...again Lavalle who bore the brunt as the Eagles dominated play early in the second stanza, and the advantage shifted back and forth as each team drew successive penalties. A speedy B.C. defense broke up the Crimson attacks until Wally Sears took a sideline pass from Davy Key at 15:03 and blasted it through Bernie Burke...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Sextet Humbles Favored Boston College, 4 to 3, As Barclay's Quintet Subdues Engineers, 57-46 | 12/4/1947 | See Source »

Selling Point. In Wichita Falls, Tex., a thief broke into Salesman Rex Smith's auto, stole a dozen auto-theft alarms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...hissed out of the clouds. The three trucks groped through it fearfully, for a skid might have rolled both trucks and mirror down the steep mountainside. Then, as the mirror neared the observatory dome-shining like frosted silver and big as a railroad roundhouse-a shaft of brilliant sunlight broke through the clouds. The nearest star, the sun, was friendly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hope Rides a Truck | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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