Word: breaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was after three hours, 57 minutes. Half an hour later, John boated Louis' fish-the biggest black marlin ever caught: 1,006 Ibs. It was 30 pounds heavier and more than a foot longer than the record-breaker caught in New Zealand's Bay of Islands...
...June 15, venerable, but slightly doddering, History 1 will join the ranks of Former Harvard Greats. Just after World War I the renowned back-breaker assumed its present form, surveying Western Europe from the Fall of Rome to the present. It saw glorious days under President Lowell as the core of Harvard education, a pre-requisite for every undergraduate in History, Government, and Economics. In recent years, however, its age has begun to show, and its passing is no surprise...
...Army's record-breaker was made out of a German V2, with its warhead replaced by the small, U.S.-developed "WAC Corporal" rocket. When the combination reached a certain height (the Army did not say how high), the WAC Corporal was fired by electronic control. It zipped out of the V-2's nose added its own speed to that of the V2, and reached 5,000 m.p.h. The empty V-2 fell 20 miles from the firing place; the WAC Corporal was tracked by instruments, apparently fell about 80 miles north of White Sands. Four days later...
...Harvard entries will compete in the New England Amateur Athletic Association pole vault, broad jump, and 35-pound weight throw this afternoon at Briggs Cage, but Sam Felton, last year's varsity record-breaker, will be on the bring line in the weight event. The three events will start...
Peaches & Plums. This year's vegetable crop is a record-breaker and By Ward Market showed it. Ripe tomatoes as big as softballs glowed in almost every stall. Heaps of corn, cucumbers, rutabagas and broccoli were piled around them. On the fruit stands were new Duchess and Melba apples, peaches, plums and melons. For added color and fragrance there were asters, snapdragons, baby's breath, zinnias...