Sentence examples for broke major from inspiring English sources
Another hallmark of Frick's tenure as National League president occurred in 1947 when Jackie Robinson made his debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers and broke major league baseball's colour barrier.
The rotunda, with its brick archways, is an homage to the signature architectural feature of Ebbets Field, where Robinson broke major league baseball's color barrier in 1947 and played for 10 seasons.
Adele broke major sales records with 25, and while I've heard some – including the New York Times's gender expert Jon Pareles – say her music is inherently appealing to women, her songs leave me cold.
My father's tale was about Ray (Dandy) Dandridge, an African-American third-baseman and one of the top few players in the history of the blacks-only leagues before Jackie Robinson broke major league baseball's Jim Crow line in 1947.
It also broke major news in the shape of the launch of Telegram by 'Russia's Zuckerberg Pavel Durovv.
"Even when [my rich dad] was flat broke after a major financial setback, he continued to refer to himself as a rich man," Kiyosaki writes.
There is cultural capital to gain from the hipster aesthetic: young, broke liberal arts majors offered little to the world except for their taste in clothes and music.
The book that deserved to do better: James Meek's The Heart Broke In is a major book in every sense by one of the most entertaining novelists writing today.
But if one major firm goes broke, the effect could snowball as others are unable to meet their commitments.
One reason might be that its bankers sold debts to one another to a point at which major institutions went broke.
