Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sixteen years later I turned up in Tokyo, an itinerant free-lance writer, broke and badly in need of a job. By chance I met a member of the faculty of the University of Tokyo. When my professor-acquaintance heard my name, he asked if I were related to the "great" Doctor Hepburn. I explained the relationship. The next day I was offered a position as "Professor of English Conversation" at the Imperial University . . . Wherever I went in Japan doors were opened wide for me because I was a descendant of the great Doctor...
...warning came too late. The P-38 hurtled into the passenger-jammed DC-4 with the split-second destructiveness of a huge explosive shell; its twin propellers chewed through the big plane with a shriek and its projectile impact broke the big plane's back. As the P-38 ricocheted off and plummeted into the river, the shattered transport flashed with fire and broke in two in midair...
...plot brings a nobleman, who thinks he is broke, into service as a footman in the household of connoisseur Joshua Howard. Inevitably he falls in love with the old man's niece and amanuensis, and gets into numerous complications before the final dribbling denouement...
...entire United States there are only nine other complete Gutenberg Bibles while about 30 others were distributed around the rest of the globe before the World War II broke...
Coach Art Valpey devoted the bulk of his time at the practice to seeking a replacement for Chuck Walsh, who broke his leg Saturday against Princeton and will be out for the rest of the season. Valpey has brought Hugh Edmonds up from the Jayvees in an effort to find a new second string offensive quarterback to replace Walsh...