Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Preakness Stakes (Sat. 5:45 p. m. NBC-Red). Race for crack three-year- olds described by Clem McCarthy...
...slouch as a human being, either physically or mentally, is Fellow James LuValle, a graduate assistant in chemistry at California Institute of Technology, who is working for a Ph.D., will use his fellowship for research in physical chemistry. A crack quarter-miler and former captain of the University of California at Los Angeles track team, Scholar-Athlete LuValle represented the U. S. in the 1936 Olympics...
...getting somewhere in a hurry. Up to the end of 1937 a total of 54 streamlined trains had been put on scheduled runs by 17 lines. Last week the two major Eastern lines, New York Central and Pennsylvania, announced that on June 15 they would streamline their crack trains. The Central's Twentieth Century Limited and Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited will be the first streamliners to run out of Manhattan, will both average a mile a minute, will both reach Chicago in record schedule time of 16 hours. Neither line will use radically new engines, will simply...
...Pius XI, had busied itself printing the highest-powered extracts of an anti-Italian nature it was able to cull from the back files of German newspapers. In sum, these gems of Nazi thought extolled the Nordic races over the Mediterranean, and Osservatore Romano even found a Nazi press crack that Italians ought to have no difficulty colonizing in Africa "because the difference between them and Africans is not very great...
...years, followed by 100 disciples, he spent looking for another job. He did not find one, mainly because Chinese lords mistrusted his honesty, once because he refused to play up to a smart mistress behind the throne. Typical of the topical way Confucius coined his maxims was the crack he delivered on this occasion. "I have never known anyone," declared the sage, "who will work so hard on behalf of virtue as for a beautiful face...