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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When a band of French and Indians, under Major Hertel de Rouville, broke into the stockade and surprised the sleeping community. Of 300 Deerfielders, 50 perished, 111 were hauled off to Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Massachusetts Yankee | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...April 6 Henry Wallace arrived in Evansville for a rally. An organization named "The Spirit of Kilroy" picketed the meeting with the aid of high school boys, some town people, and some students. The pickets shouted, broke windows, and broke into the meeting, afterwards attacking Wallace's entourage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Wallace Men Charge 'Purging' | 5/25/1949 | See Source »

...trouble broke out when the Princeton Graduate Interclub Committee announced its intention Wednesday to limit club football weekends to two per season, neither of them on the Yale weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton May Limit Club Parties | 5/24/1949 | See Source »

...pertinent passage (Isaiah 2:4): "And . . . they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." Fifteen minutes later they were still swapping biblical quotations when the President's secretary reluctantly broke in to announce the next caller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Israel's Rabbi | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Craftsman. In Columbus, Ohio, Kenneth L. Scott, after admitting that he broke into eleven safes, assured police: "I'm the third best safecracker in the country, and I'm. not sure the other two are better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 23, 1949 | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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