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Word: broached (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is no question that they have almost brought Mexico to its knees economically. Oil exports have fallen 50%. Cost of living is sharply up. And Cardenas has promised that within ten years Mexico will compensate for all it has taken. General Amaro was the first Presidential candidate to broach this issue. "I deem it unpatriotic," he stormed, "to create obligations of an international character for the country in the knowledge that we have not the financial capacity to comply with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Visitor to Mexico | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

There is only one thing that Harvard could say when it heard of Yale's broach of etiquette, and that was, "You never caught us doing it". It was left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 9/27/1934 | See Source »

...intention to hold an anti-war demonstration on the Widener steps Saturday afternoon. In view of the University's official displeasure at the earlier announcement, this retraction cannot come as much of a surprise. University Hall, wherever its sympathies may lie, obviously could not permit so gross a broach of hospitality, and University Hall does hold all of the cards. But the circumstances of the retraction were singular enough to make comment only just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIBERAL CLUB | 11/10/1933 | See Source »

There was no beating-up, and soon after the scene at the Spectator office, Columbia's footballers were forbidden to broach the subject publicly again. But Morningside Heights did not stop talking. Cause of the excitement was a contribution by Editor Harris to the perennial, nationwide discussion of emphasized football. He had written that he would "trade the whole Columbia football team for a nice little place in the country with cows and chickens.'' He had charged that football has become "a semiprofessional racket operated largely for the amusement of the alumni and the general public . . . until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Morningside Melodrama | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

Recently United Eastern Agencies, Ltd. acquired the managing agency of the three companies supplying Poona, Broach and Karachi with power & light. Last week the majority of United Eastern Agencies' stock went to American & Foreign Power Co. Inc. The minority holders are largely the same prominent Indians who share with American & Foreign Power control of Tata Hydro-Electric Agencies, Ltd., managing agent for several big power companies in the Bombay district...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Deals & Developments | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

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