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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, the Terriers broke up the Crimson's own aerial threat, holding ace Carroll Lowenstein to 63 yards in 17 tries. A 45-yard throw by Brown and two others for 25 yards by Agganis scored three of the Terrier touchdowns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. Passes Drub Freshman Eleven By Margin of 34-0 | 10/30/1948 | See Source »

Here the game was decided. Winthrop tightened up and held Adams for downs on the seven. With only 40 seconds left to play, Winthrop tried to stall the game on their goal line until the whistle, but Adams defensive strongman Tim Wall is broke through the Puritan wall and dumped an end run in the end zone for a safety...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritans Top Adams 6 to 2; Dunster Wins | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

Before last week, orderly, freedom-loving Uruguayans had about persuaded themselves that their Communists were different. Then the U.S. movie, The Iron Curtain, story of the Soviet spy ring in Canada, came to Montevideo, and Uruguay's Commies broke the spell. About 200 of them turned up at Montevideo's Trocadero theater and made an unseemly rough house. They lobbed tar at the screen, dropped stink bombs, and smashed some seats. As dismayed citizens rushed for the exits, the police arrived, went after the demonstrators, carted off 70 prisoners. Finally order was restored. The citizens drifted back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: URUGUAY: Tar on the Screen | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Died. Samuel Southey Hinds, 73, silver-haired Hollywood character actor (Destry Rides Again, Call Northside 777); in Pasadena, Calif. A great-grandson of British Poet Laureate Robert Southey, Hinds was a millionaire lawyer who went broke in 1929, turned to the movies as a bit-player, in time became known to millions of moviegoers by playing the distinguished man of wealth he had once been in real life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Fast Friends. In Pasadena, Calif., when Robert Dwyer and Robert Chapman rushed happily to greet each other after a long parting, Dwyer broke his leg, Chapman cracked his" skull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

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