Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eliot's Elephants forgot the script last night and bottled up the Lowell quintet for three quarters of the game, but the Bellboys broke away in the final period and roped in their eighth straight win of the House basketball race...
...Britain has a lot of industrial know-how. Americans who think they have a national copyright on that term would do well to abandon the illusion. Britain has tangible industrial resources. Not all plants are worn out. Not all management is behind the times. Britain is not literally broke...
...teachers had first taken their salary demands to the city. They wanted, among other things, a permanent raise in minimums from $1,775 to $2,400, in maximums from $2,975 to $4,000. The city's answer was that Buffalo is broke, and that only the state legislature-in session at Albany-may empower the city to raise its tax rate. A little unsure whether it was up to city or state to help them, the teachers walked out, and put the pressure on both...
...volcanic province," dotted with old, dead craters. The whole region may be resting on a "batholith," an enormous mass of "magma" or hot, plastic rock. More likely, Paricutin gets its lava from a smaller "local chamber" of molten basalt which gnawed its way toward the surface until it finally broke through. If the underground lava supply is large enough and active enough, Paricutin may grow as tall as 17,876-ft. Popocatepetl, 200 miles to the east...
...happened before. Mt. Etna was a familiar story to Julius Caesar and Pericles. Even before Homer's day, Sicilians were fleeing from their huts pursued by Etna's lava. Geologists estimate that Etna broke through the earth's crust in the middle Pleistocene period, some 300,000 years...