Word: brokenness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...impossible the statistics prove: Yale punted for 1,095 yards and Harvard for 1,042. Two Harvard fumbles were recovered by Yale, and two kicks were blocked, enabling the Elis to score a touchdown and two field goals. The final score was 13 to 0, and the string was broken...
...senior tackles, Joe Finnegan and Walt Clemens, anchor the line and since they are Hickman's defenders as well as his best offensive men at their positions, they play both ways. Finnegan, a 189-pound New Haven townic, has had hard luck in the form of a broken leg in 1947, and an appendectomy in 1948, but managed to become a regular last fall. Clemens, at 187, was one of the original "Seven Dwarfs" of the 1949 line...
...trees were as bright as a shower of broken glass...
...shakes a metaphor like a wet dog shaking himself dry. A man is broken "on the wheel of a dream"; the night wind passes "like a sail across/ A blind man's eye"; an old house "looks as though the walls had cried themselves/ To sleep"; a happy character "sits and purrs/ As though the morning were a saucer of milk"; the fields of grain move "like a lion's mane"; flowers gather "like pilgrims in the aisles of the sun"; the morning leaves "the sunlight on my step like any normal/ Tradesman." Fry's most persistent...
Wall Street has seldom seen a nimbler broken-field runner than 47-year-old Charles Allen Jr. A New York City boy who quit school at 15 to be a Stock Exchange messenger, Allen learned the Street's ways so well that he parlayed his pocket change into $15 million. With his younger brothers Herbert and Harold, he built the potent investment banking firm of Allen & Co. (TIME, Aug. 2,1948). They bought up and reorganized the Rockefellers' famed Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp., Germany's war-forfeited American Bosch Corp., captured many another plum with their sharp...