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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the fellow, feeling that after he had paid up what he owed, and a 50% additional penalty for fraud, he had suffered enough. But the garden variety of sinners were informed of what the Internal Revenue Bureau grandly calls "innocent mistakes" in such grating terms that almost all broke into a heavy sweat and laid the money on the line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Milking the Mice | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Three goals in less than thirty seconds, at 7:09, 7:15, and 7:30 of the second period, broke the Crimson's heart and paved the way for Dartmouth's 7 to 2 win at the Arena last night. The Green thereby won the Pontagonal League title and the right to meet the University of Montreal for the Alexis Thompson trophy, emblematic of North-American hockey supremacy...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Green Speed Whips Sextet, 7-2, at Arena | 3/15/1949 | See Source »

...closing minutes, two fights broke out, one a minor scuffle between Joe Kittredge and Cliff Harrison, the other a pitched battle between Bill Garrity and Indians Bill Riley, Dick Desmond, and Red Bailey. Garrity and his old Belmont High teammate Riley were both given match misconduct penalties...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Green Speed Whips Sextet, 7-2, at Arena | 3/15/1949 | See Source »

About the only thing to be said for the film, outside of its merciful shortness (75 minutes), is John Ireland, who grapples hopelessly with the role of Bob Ford. Ireland, like Richard Widmark, broke the code of the West by making a hit in his very first picture, "Red River." His punishment, like Widmark's, has been banishment to the salt mines of Grade B for the required term of apprenticeship. It is still a pleasure to watch Ireland slouch casually around a set, but this time his effortlessness is wasted on a miserable part...

Author: By J. CHEEVER Loophole, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/15/1949 | See Source »

...seventh score was the one which broke the Elis hearts. As Kittredge and a Yale defenseman were engaging in an unofficial wrestling match in front of the goal, second string Yale goalie Nordy Knox came out to help his side. With the nets left unguarded, DiBlasio swept in and scored easily...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Six Tops Yale, 8-3, Will Tackle Indians Tonight | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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