Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pepper the Empire with brightly printed pamphlets such as Dream of War Between the United States and Japan by fire-eating Lieut. Commander Kyosuke Fukunaga of the Imperial Navy, retired. Last week horrified U. S. customs men at Honolulu seized 77 boxes full of this Japanese classic aboard the crack liner Chichibu Maru, name-ship of Japan's Crown Prince...
...best professional football, given less to grandstand theatricals and more to the theatricals of machine-precision team play, can be more exciting, more sincerely spectacular than the best of college games. Thirty-five forward passes were thrown, 20 completed. With perfect protection from his backfield, the Giants' crack Quarterback Harry Newman (Michigan's All-American of last year) alone threw 17, completed 12. Fullback Jack Manders of the Bears kicked three out of four field goals, one from the 42-yd. line. The lead changed six times, stood 21-to-16 in favor of the Giants...
...what a predicament you have placed me in. Shooting is not free in New York State like it is down in Kentucky, so I am afraid to come up there and "crack down on you," to borrow the language recently used by a sure enough full-grown American citizen, officer and gentleman. Neither can I send you a challenge to fight a duel, which would be the gentlemanly thing to do, because no one down in Old Kentucky can hold an office until he swears that he has neither fought a duel nor accepted a challenge to fight...
Variety. Gene Vidal, a onetime Army flyer who looks like an Indian, was born 38 years ago in Madison, S. Dak. His father, a railway engineer, sent him to the State university to study engineering. Though physically lazy, brawny Gene Vidal became a crack athlete, won letters in football, baseball, basketball, track. Entering West Point in 1916 he won still greater kudos. Coaches' fight talks bored him. Once, during time-out in the middle of a furious Army-Navy game, he shocked his teammates by calmly asking where the football dinner was to be held that night. But sport...
...settled down to the business of driving through four touchdowns. The first went to a hard-hitting tackle named Charles Ceppi who blocked a Yale kick on the 35-yd. line, scooped up the ball and raced across the line. The second started with a march from midfield by crack Halfback '"Garry" Le Van and Fullback "Pepper" Constable, and ended with a lateral pass to Halfback Spoffard from the 6-yd. line. Five plays carried the ball 54 yd. for Le Van to score the third. A whippet-tank march from the 35-yd. line made the fourth...