Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chip Gannon put it this way: "If we beat Navy and then take Dartmouth next Wednesday, we'll be one of the toughest teams to beat in New England. Last year, we lost a lot of tough overtime games at the beginning and this broke the squad's morale...
...edge of a Christmas buying season which had been expected to break all records, U.S. retailers last week broke forth in a rash of unseasonal clearance sales. Reason: for three weeks in a row, their dollar volume had fallen below the level of a year ago. To step it up, they marked down prices and bulged the newspapers with ads of eye-popping bargains...
Share the Loot. It was principally Irey and his men who broke up Huey Long's gang, gave young District Attorney Tom Dewey the evidence with which to convict Beer Baron Waxie Gordon, jailed Johnny Torrio (who proposed a deal: "Leave us cut out the shooting, boys, there's enough here for everybody"), broke the Lindbergh case and busted up the Pendergast machine...
...composer Jack Finnegan '46 stood up took a bow. He stood up twice more during the concert, each time for better cause, for his Columbia and Yale Medleys were every bit as good as they sounded the days of the games. Soon after the Yale Medley, the Band broke down and played "Wintergreen" and the man in the second balcony, who had been calling for it all evening, stood up and bowed...
...hours on a streetcar with wine, women, an assorted noises broke the monotony of a late fall weekend for 25 Eliot House men Saturday evening...