Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Lesson. In London, Psychologist Sir Frederic Bartless broke off his lecture on the mechanics of memory, sheepishly explained that his assistant had forgotten to bring the demonstration equipment...
...smooth Dunster team, forced to play an outside game by the height and general proficiency of Kirkland's John Lombard and Pat McCormick, shot and passed with accuracy, and then broke the Deacon spirit with a flurry of fast breaks. Leading scorer for Dunster was Jack Norman with 11 points, as John Brunsman concentrated on rebounds. Lombard led Kirkland with eight...
Putts on the Rug. In 1932 he struck out for Los Angeles with $75 and big ideas about making the winter tour. A month later he was back in Fort Worth, broke. The following winter, he went west again, got as far as the Agua Caliente Open (where he won no prize money) and the Phoenix Open (where he picked up $50). He had turned in some good scores for 18 holes, but he had no consistency. It taught him one lesson: "There's no such thing as one good shot in big-time golf. They all have...
Twice in two years, Big Nine teams had invaded the Rose Bowl and made the Pacific Coast champions look like second-raters. Last week, a Big Nine team won again, but not until Northwestern Halfback Ed Tunnicliff broke loose for a 43-yard run in the last minutes of play. Final score: Northwestern 20, California 14. Some scores in other bowls (16 in all, which did a more than $2,000,000 business before some 600,000 fans...
...fast 22-day climb, led by the oil stocks, Dow-Jones industrial averages went from 180.28 to 191.06, and the rail averages went from 57.97 to 62.27. Both of them "broke through" their previous high marks, established in 1947. For the large number of investors who swear by the Dow Theory, the "breakthrough" meant that the bear market was finally over, the bull market had arrived...