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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard Case. In London, burglars broke into Cox and Danks, Ltd., took only small change, chalked a disgusted message on the safe: "Too tough to open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 27, 1946 | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

Classics and Philosophy for the first time in over a year broke into the tally sheet with one enrollment. The Atomic Age, however, failed to provide any concentrators in Electronic Physics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Concentration Choices Of '49b Applications Swing to Government | 5/21/1946 | See Source »

...obsessed with a desire for power? Time & again he has deliberately thrown away chances to increase his power, as when he broke with Roosevelt. Time & again he has recklessly doublecrossed and reviled the very men who could help him to power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Moth & The Flame | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...legislative assemblies. As a graduate of St. Paul's and Harvard, and a man with a natural flair for festive living, he enjoys association with First Families, likes good clothes, fine horses, fine wines. Son of a rich family which lost its fortune, he is often almost broke, lives in genteel and sprightly style by doing public-relations jobs for big busi ness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Joe's Blow | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...Besson had one foot over the window sill of his Paris flat when police broke in and collared him. The raiders also found stacks of counterfeit food and clothing coupons; a rackful of fake government rubber stamps; a veritable alchemy plant and enough pieces of gold to light the eyes of Captain Kidd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Piker's Nephew | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

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