Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Upperclassmen living outside the Houses can get a crack at House vacancies that will appear in the spring term if they are willing to give up their present or chosen roommates, the Housing office reported yesterday...
Both men, Harvard's youthful Art Valpey and Yale's jovial Herman Hickman have had their troubles this year in their first crack at bigtime head-coaching. Of the two, Hickman probably got the most sleep last night, at Eli headquarters in the Hotel Bellevue. Here...
...American country against a neighbor. Tacho could also thank the U.S. for the best army in Central America. After the U.S. Marines moved into Nicaragua to protect U.S. interests in the Coolidge administration, they reorganized and trained Nicaragua's army. Before the Marines pulled out in 1933, the crack new Guardia National was the country's police force as well as its army...
...more & more emphasis on throat irritation. Huffed the Journal: "It would be difficult indeed to differentiate between the irritation caused by the smoking of cigarettes and that caused by various bacteria, chemicals or heat." If the cigarette companies do not mend their talk, it hinted darkly, the Government might crack down...
...story of Joan of Arc has enchanted film makers as it has poets, artists, musicians, dramatists, historians. The first film Joan of Arc was made in 1900 by French Movie Pioneer George Melies. Pathe made two versions (1909 and 1913). Cecil B. DeMille's crack at the subject (191?) was called Joan the Woman, starring Geraldine Farrar. Perhaps the most exciting version was Carl Dreyer's silent La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928), starring Mile. Falconetti...