Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very likely to crack up again if they fly too soon, and alone...
...Cracked skis, broken harnesses, and untimely falls submerged the Crimson ski team to eighth place among the ten crack teams poling for north-eastern U. S. collegiate ski honors in the Dartmouth Carnival at Hanover this weekend...
When Dr. Horace Smithy, crack young (34) surgeon of the Medical College of South Carolina, first examined his patient, he thought her trip to Charleston had been in vain. Blonde Betty Lee Woolridge was an almost classic example of the wreckage caused when a heart is crippled by rheumatic fever. At 21, Betty Lee weighed only 85 pounds; veins in her neck stood out like whipcords; her abdomen was swollen with a fluid by-product of congestive heart failure. Doctors in her home town of Canton, Ohio had told her she had only a year to live...
Journalism is a tough field to crack and doesn't pay much when one does, five newspapermen agreed last night at the Placement Office's first conference. But there's "as little monotony in it as in any possible...
...Treasury Agents Dennis O'Keefe and Alfred Ryder crack a counterfeit ring in a busy, biting melodrama (TIME...