Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lewis, O'Neill & associates were not simply wasting time. Each side waited for the other to crack under increasing pressure from U. S. coal consumers. John Lewis hoped the operators would crack to the point of giving him a closed shop,* or a contract clause permitting him to strike whenever A. F. of L.'s unions, particularly the small Progressive Miners of America, may try to encroach on U. M. W. preserves. Many an operator was willing to surrender by last week, but as a group they still hung together for renewal of the old contract, including...
...weather is clear and track fast, two Harvard records may have fallen when the sun sets behind the stadium. George Downing, who has been heaving the shot consistently over 48 feet, may well crack Johnny Dean's 1933 mark of 48 ft., 10 1/4 inches. And Don Donahue is conceded an outside chance to pare the 220 low hurdle record, not bettered since Joseph G. Willis '02 covered the furlong stretch...
...Crack Sprinters
...strength doesn't step here. After two lean years. Hill Neufeld again has crack sprinters: Bob Gammons and Fred Clen one-two Quad winners, in the century; and football captain Torby Macdonald, who pulled a muscle last year...
Last year Rumania's State church, the Greek Orthodox, had temporal power with a vengeance: its Patriarch Miron Cristea was King Carol's puppet Premier. Patriarch Cristea did not resist an impulse to crack down on Protestant sects. His device was simple. He had his Minister of Cults decree that no congregation could hold public services unless at least 100 heads of families belonged...