Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after-school jobs. The most disagreeable of these was cleaning out a horse stall under a store on Rainier Street; Frankie was never much at manual work. His ambition, as he was achieving social success at Franklin High, was to go to college. Then father went stony broke...
...tiny, single-engined Aeronca, Pilots Bill Barris and Dick Riedel, of Fullerton, Calif., broke a ten-year-old flight endurance record (726 hours), vowed to stay aloft until they had passed 1,000. To refuel, they dropped to five feet from the ground, picked up fuel, oil and food from a car speeding down the runway at 70 miles an hour...
House cleaning one morning, Mrs. Arthur Martin of Syracuse, N.Y. dusted the plaster statue of St. Anne a little too hastily: it toppled from the window ledge into the cement driveway below and broke into pieces. It was swept up and dropped in an ashcan and there the eldest of the Martins' four children, a lively, questing, eleven-year-old named Shirley Anne, found...
...Francisco to make a quick 30% of the gate for refereeing an evening of wrestling, retired heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis said reports that he is broke are exaggerated. Said Joe: "I could make half a million a year just refereeing fights and wrestling matches . . . I could get myself booked every night in the week, but it interferes with my golf...
...will be rowing their first varsity race, however. Ollie Iselin has a year's experience in last year's freshman boat behind him. Ted Anderson, at five, also rowed in the '51 shell, but this will be the second race of any kind for sophomore Clancy Asp, who only broke into the freshman lineup in time for one race last year...