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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broke up the former domination and since then the teams have had poor seasons. Last year the club was completely disorganized and lost all its games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rugger Team Prepares for Bermuda Trip | 3/25/1949 | See Source »

...meeting of prospective candidates for the position of delegates (5) and alternates (3) on the Harvard NSA delegation. It would be well for the political element of the College to turn out in multitudes to try for these posts. A good delegation, unlike this year's which almost broke up after its summer trip to the convention in Wisconsin, would do NSA and the College a noble turn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 8 Delegates 8 | 3/23/1949 | See Source »

...Dwyer and Tammany Hall-looked Clen up & down without great passion, spit on their hands and went to work. Before they were even half through they had made Clen Ryan look bad. In the dead of night Bill O'Dwyer summoned newsmen to City Hall, himself broke the wildest wiretapping story to hit the town since Justice Aurelio was overheard thanking Frankie Costello for his nomination (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Education of Clendenin | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...cuts a dashing figure and runs a big house. She has never lacked cash; as granddaughter of Banker Sir Ernest Cassel, she is the life beneficiary of a ?1,406,250 (about $5,600,000) trust fund. Last week her solicitors let it be known that Lady Mountbatten was broke and would shortly ask the House of Lords to pass a bill permitting her to break Sir Ernest's trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Newly Poor | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

National Airlines, Inc., which had almost gone broke fighting a pilots' strike, last week appeared before CAB to fight a move to dismember it. CAB thought its routes should be split up among other carriers. As the hearings got underway in Washington, National surprised CAB by proposing something like a dismemberment plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: On the Operating Table | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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