Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broke her heart, Hollywood's voluptuous Rhonda Fleming wired the Freshman Jubilee Committee yesterday, but she couldn't make her scheduled appearance at Harvard. Last minute revisions in her filming schedule will require Miss Fleming's presence at her studio early Monday morning, the telegram said...
...ninth, singles by Joe Kozol and Graham Taylor broke a 2 to 2 tie and gave Adams a 4 to 2 lead. But Lowell evened the count again with singles by Bob Woodruff and Duke Gormley and a sacrifice by Fred Donahoo...
...chance to go on playing the comedy role that turned last year's Sitting Pretty into a smash box-office hit. Mr. Belvedere is no longer a babysitter, but he is still insufferably and hilariously patronizing; he is still a self-confessed genius and he is still broke. His bestselling book, Hummingbird Hill, has won him fame, but lost him a fortune in libel suits. All he has left is a $10,000 prize which he can collect only by taking a college degree. With acidulous hauteur, he enrolls as a freshman at Clemens University, gets...
...much the same way, another amateur-turned-general, Richard Mentor Johnson, licked Tecumseh by using cavalry as mounted infantry. In the Civil War, two Northern generals, John Buford and Phil Sheridan, carried Johnson's tactic still further; they broke completely with the flashy hit & run use of men on horseback, and employed cavalry as "a fast motorized column of infantry...
...meeting opened with a welcoming address by Graduate Secretary Charles W. Duhig '29, broke up into discussion panels before and after dinner, and reassembled for talks by three speakers...