Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Infant though it be, the science of rocketry is not confined solely to crack-brained dreams of launching a howling projectile on its way to the moon. Rockets, in fact, have passed one definite milestone: they have traveled at 700 m.p.h., faster than any other self-propelled mechanism. The moon idea grew out of the solid fact that, unlike airplanes, rockets do not need air either for support or propulsion since they are pushed along by self-generated recoil forces...
...whip that cracks loudest and most potently in Russia is the Communist Party newsorgan Pravda ("Truth"), in which Joseph Stalin's lightest whims and heaviest commands, usually unsigned, often appear first. Last week that prominent Old Bolshevik, the editor of the Soviet Government newsorgan Izvestia ("News"), famed Nicolai Ivanovich Bukharin, expressed the editorial opinion that the Russian people were "a nation of Oblomovs" (i. e., lazy, good-for-nothing dreamers like Oblomov, principal character in the famed Goncharov novel) prior to their glorious awakening by the Revolution of 1917. Crack!-Pravda came out with an editorial flaying Old Bolshevik...
...ever genuinely enjoyed being Vice President of the U. S. For 36 years his colleagues in House and Senate knew Kansas' Charles Curtis not only as a modest, hardworking, ultraconservative, non-speechmaking Republican wheelhorse, but as a friendly, back-slapping good fellow, a crack poker player and lover of horse races...
...Corner Brook on the west coast of Newfoundland, International could not make enough money. But President Graustein discovered other profit sources. One was kraft paper, the common coarse bag and wrapping paper manufactured in the South. In the process of acquiring kraft companies, Mr. Graustein picked up a crack operating man named Richard J. Cullen, who headed the big International subsidiary, Southern Kraft Corp...
Riddled by probationary casualties, the Freshman Track Team will leave today to meet Andover's crack contingent. The Freshman will be in the role of underdog tomorrow with more good runners on pro than there are running...