Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some years there is rain: in others there is merely weather assorted varieties of mediocrity. But whether the winds blow and crack their cheeks, whether rain spouts or fire spits there is a Jubilee, accompanied by juvenile jubilancy. As this paper goes to press the prospects are equally auspicious for drenching showers or those sunbeams whose absence have for a month made Cambridge merely a temporary precipitation in an aqueous solution. Therefore the wise Freshman will be prepared to don anything from the flannels to the security of oilskins...
...jogging again. Only the fools sprint. It is 3,000 miles from Los Angeles to Manhattan, where a $25,000 prize, fat vaudeville contracts and the plaudits of a multitude await the first super-marathoner to stagger across the finish line within 100 days of the starting pistol crack...
...head against bottom. When he reached surface (he told his Manhattan greeters last week), his head hurt; his neck was stiff; he could not turn his head. Something was out of joint. He wrapped his powerful fingers about his neck, manipulated the bones, wrenched. There was an "audible crack" and he was "fit as ever...
...pounds, carrying an additional load of 11,000 pounds. Imagine that bird losing necessary flying speed a few feet above the ground, trying to land in a marsh at 70 miles per hour. In such a bird, last week, were Lieut. Commander Noel Davis and Lieut. Stanton Hall Wooster, crack flyers of the U. S. Navy. They were making their last test flight in the trimotored American Legion, preparatory to attempting a non-stop jump from the U. S. to Paris. Loaded with enough gasoline to cross the Atlantic, their plane roared along the ground at Langley Field, near Hampton...
MacCracken's Crack. Last week, President Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College, where the young women themselves regulate all questions of smoking, said: "Tobacco is one of the country's most important crops. The men can't smoke it all up. Why shouldn't the women help...