Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the Donnelly-Lerner-King-Lightbody baton brigade will have a hard time in beating Cornell's crack mile relay team, particularly since the Crimson anchorman is also entered in the 600, Jaakko's capable 880 artists, Joe Olive, Jack McClure, Chick Old-father, and Al Hanlon, should coast through the tape in the two mile event...
Without pausing to remove hat & overcoat, portly Dr. Clendening strode around to the valve and feed pipe of the air-compressor supplying the pneumatic drills. Sock! Crack! went the ax. The drills fell silent, but not Dr. Clendening. At the marveling WPAsters he roared...
Divorced. Burleigh Grimes, 45, crack spitball pitcher of the 19205; from his second wife, Laura Virginia Grimes ; in Union, Mo. Charge: "general indignities." Died. Mrs. Charles W. Gamble ("Mollie Ticklepitcher"), 51; of cancer; in Jasper, Tenn. A tank town actress, she hoaxed Phillips Lord into letting her speak over his We, the People radio program by passing herself off as a backwoods midwife (TIME...
...ever in the soil of senile insecurity. Dr. Townsend, still promising up to $200 a month to be raised by a hazy "transactions tax," sat in Washington waiting to be called by the committee. Meantime, his organization's chief rival, the General Welfare Federation of America, got its crack at the committee last week...
...Newport Y.M.C.A. quintet proved to be a tougher nut to crack than it looked, and Coach Johnny Wood's charges went down to a 47 to 33 defeat before the long-range sniping of the visitors...