Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Great Britain is broke...
Happy Day. In Washington, James Davis, informed by Marian Schubert that she would indeed marry him, jumped for joy, broke...
...Robinson was rated and examined solely as a freshman player in the big leagues -on the basis of his hitting, his running, his defensive play, his team value. The sociological experiment that Robinson represented, the trail-blazing he did, the barriers he broke down did not enter into the decision...
...match, which could be struck 600 times, had been invented in 1931 by Dr. Ferdinand Ringer, a Viennese chemist. It was bought up for $400,000-and filed away-by the late match king, Ivar Kreuger. Subsequently, Dr. Ringer came to the U.S., and when a federal court broke up the remnants of Kreuger's old cartel in 1946, the match was again available...
...eared, sardonic lowan of 42, Harvard cum laude Author Duncan spent ten years on Gus the Great and was nearly broke much of the time. An itinerant writer, teacher and Chautauqua actor, he is the author of three previous novels, all poor sellers. He retired to a trailer to finish Gus the Great, wandering through the West and Southwest. When the money ran low, Duncan hacked out short stories on a 1924 Corona; his wife, Actea, took a secretarial job. The Duncans' first purchase with their new riches: a shiny new Chrysler convertible...