Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Assassin Ratchitch, whom no government deputy had seized from behind, put his fifth bullet with crack marksmanship into the stomach of Stefan Raditch, who crumpled as though felled...
Edward Walsh Jr., Coach Mills' crack hurler, will be seen in action on Soldiers Field today. He has won five games in as many starts. Walsh is the son of "Big Ed" Walsh, former crack twirler of the Chicago White Sox. On the receiving end of that famous battery of years ago was William Sullivan, whose son is captain and second baseman of the Notre Dame nine.J. N. BARBEE...
Dobens-started to crack in the seventh. A. L. Devens '30 walked, and Whitney singled. Cahill mussed up the throw-in and Devens counted. Cahill threw wild to the plate when he found the ball and Whitney came in. Cutts tripled and, when Dobens balked, scored...
Young, pretty, impulsive, utterly reckless, Thea Rasche, Germany's crack lady stunt-flier, arrived here last week and repaired at once to Curtiss Field, there to inspect a Stinson Detroiter monoplane in which she plans to fly to Germany...
...occasional shifts in the line-up, passed with equal rapidity as the teams went around the batting order. In this inning either two or three runs were scored for the CRIMSON and forced the Princetonian hurlet behind the bench. The third and fourth frames were filled with the crack of bats as the Crimson willows, second only to the war clubs of the battling Princetonians, struggled hard to stop the batting order from going around. By the fifth inning the umpires had retired into conference to consider cancelling the game because of camp grounds, but the CRIMSON cohorts, being...