Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Lampoon especially our praises are due, for reaching a pinnacle in its precarious and Alpine history, and thence demolishing at one crack that pillar of New England society, the Boston Transcript...
...twenty-three game baseball schedule announced this morning is the greatest step yet taken toward a real old time spring athletic season. Once more home runs and strikeouts will be on everybody's lips and Soldiers Field will echo to the crack of bats and the yelling of coaches...
This afternoon will mark the true resumption of athletics on the pre-war basis when the CRIMSON'S crack hockey seven meets Lampy on the ice of Charles bank. In accordance with the desires of the Committee for the Abolition of Athletic Sports both squads have neglected all training table regulations, and will continue to do so throughout the contest. Although it is expected that the Lampoon warriors will still show evidences of the same punch with which they downed Yale, nevertheless no doubt exists in sporting circles that a victory without peace will break the historic...
...many fields. Roosevelt was the living illustration of what used rather weakly to be called "the scholar in politics". He dignified learning by showing to the whole country that a man of education, a man of letters, might nevertheless be a very good fellow, a delightful host, a crack companion in the mountains, a swift counsellor in public affairs, an administrator who went at his ends like an arrow to the quarry...
...same time, and Bill Bingham "went up" to Captain--so wherever Harvard is she marches on. Four days later I was back in a well-remembered pays with a new-to-me Section. The men are a splendid bunch--the French staff congenial--and the division is a crack one. Two Chasseur Battalions and two infantry regiments--all but one of the Chasseur groups wear the Medaille Militaire fourrageres, and that group has the Croix de Guerre fourrageres, so it is quite a division. I have not been through any great excitement yet--but have hopes...