Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apparently ignorant of the existence of two sexes, she had wanted to be a Marine. Aspiration was stunted, however, as knowledge grew. "And when the war broke out," she explained, "I heard about the Womens' Reserve of the Marine Corps, and joined up." This was killing two roes with one stone, for not only did she get to be a Leatherneck, but the stretch in green entitled her to years in plaid, beige, or lavender at any college that would take her. "I'd never even heard of Radcliffe before," she said, "but when a friend in the service told...
...first period, Lowell threatened twice, by falling on a loose ball in the Puritan backfield on the 20 and by Austy Lyne's punt runback from midfield to the 25. Both times the Winthrop line stiffened and prevented a score. Early in the second quarter, the Bellboys broke through to smother an attempted broke and took over on the 15, from where Lyne charged around right end to within one foot of the goal line. Harden Smith, who alternated at tackle and fullback during the course of the afternoon, bucked over for the first tally...
Winthrop's big threat was in the pitching arm of Bud Weld, who was deadly at short range when he had time to get his passes away before practically the whole Lowell line broke through...
What gave the Guardian its high place was implicit last week in the long leader for the day by the veteran John Lawrence Le Breton Hammond, Scott's biographer, who broke his retirement to write of his former chief...
...never been repeated, although Dahl seldom makes his 8:30 p.m. deadline with more than minutes to spare. When Dahl goes on vacation, the Herald exhumes his best sketches and reprints them. Rather than miss a day, it had him draw left-handed for six weeks when he broke his right arm five years ago. Since draftsmanship is the least of Dahl's assets, the switchover didn't show much...