Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard Hall's present site was once occupied by one of the most ancient of the College buildings, which also bore the name of the College's first benefactor and namesake. But in the year 1764 a smallpox epidemic broke out in Massachusetts, and a prudent General Court moved to Cambridge to escape the worst of the plague. In the midst of the winter vacation, old Harvard Hall suddenly caught fire, and despite the efforts of a night-shirted Governor and Legislature it burned to the ground, consuming the greater part of the library including all save...
...game saw Branford, sparked by "Wolf" Larson, overcome a 17 to 9 deficit at halftime to knot the count with six minutes to play. But the Bellboys' modified zone defense, which kept Mike Post or Dana Bresnahan on Larsen while placing the remaining four players in a diamond formation, broke the back of the Branford attack, and the Bellboys won going away...
Norm Cameron and Joe Hurley of Leverett found the range on set shots in the third quarter, and pulled the hard-fighting five to within six points of the leaders. But Lowell, with Mike Post and Donahoe controlling the backboards, broke away in the final period and coasted to the championship...
Hydrophobia, He Says. The Journal broke its story four days before the state Supreme Court began its hearings on the electoral mess. Hummon squawked loudly: "The Journal has running hydrophobia." His weekly paper, the Statesman ("The People: Editor; Herman Talmadge: Associate Editor"), joined in: "Smear tactics ... to coerce and intimidate the Supreme Court." Hundreds of congratulatory letters poured in to the Journal (owned by the Democrats' 1920 presidential candidate, James M. Cox). The rival Constitution, which fought Gene Talmadge in the last election, was strangely noncommittal about the Journal's expose of Hummon. Editor Ralph McGill (whom capitol...
...Army Air Forces team last year, he had pitched and won 25 games, lost none, and had batted .567. In the story-slim days of spring training, that was enough for baseball writers. They seldom wrote a story of which Hartung was not the hero. One newsman broke down and confessed: "Hartung is human. He is, after all, Frank Merriwell and not Superman. He gets hungry. 'Boys,' he proclaimed after a pleasant chat, 'I must...