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Word: cracked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pounding south one night last week, the crack Paris-Toulouse night express sped toward sleeping Chateauroux. Outside of town, with braked wheels flaming, the express smashed into two freight cars and curled up in a heap of tortured junk, from which trapped passengers screamed for help until long after dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Cow | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...charges of opium smoking last summer, wealthy French Elégants suspected that M. Cocteau had got in the habit of giving it to his friends among the poor-sailors, waiters, etc., on whom the authorities, for fear they might turn to crime to satisfy their expensive craving, crack down. Last week Jean Cocteau was found guilty, given a one-week suspended sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Born. To Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill, 42, crack Eastern Air Lines pilot who made the first round-trip hop between the U. S. and Europe; and Martha Virginia ("Toby") Wing, 22-year-old cinemactress: a son, their first child; in Manhattan. Fortnight ago newshawks found out they had been married since last June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Born. To William Augustus ("Wild Bill") Wellman, 43, crack cinema director (Nothing Sacred, Men With Wings), and his fourth wife: a daughter, their third child; in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Although the Associated Royal Warrant Holders can crack down by law on British usurpers, the U. S. is a permanent headache. At present the association is piqued at Philip Morris Co. for sporting a coat of arms on its Marlboro cigaret package, thus implying a royal warrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Royal Warrants | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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