Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold corpse of a satellite has crept 50% closer, a menacing bulge will be sucked out of its earthward face by terrestrial attraction. It will grow to a giant disk covering one-twentieth of the sky, lighting the night with baleful splendor. The lunar mountains, four miles high, will crack and crumble. Earth will shudder, open tremendous crevasses. The rain of moon fragments, falling as meteorites heated by atmospheric friction, will make steaming cauldrons of the seas, a smoking ruin of the land. At 20,000 miles what remains of the moon will break in two. then into successively smaller...
What this sentence implied-publication of a list of profiteering exporters or a New Deal bill to crack down on them-hardly mattered. To bankers negotiating foreign loans a negative shake of the State Department's head has almost always been enough to squelch any deal. Though it is unthinkable that any administration should deliberately use laws enacted for other purposes to harass those who do defy its wishes, most businessmen know they would be foolhardy indeed to risk offending the eternal bureaucracy which at any time is able to do a number of unthinkable things...
...Bigelow Hall, 49, native of Ishpeming, Mich., graduated from Yale (Sheffield) in 1908, there became a good friend of Harold Stanley, head of the new Morgan Stanley & Co. After reporting for the Chicago Post and Herald & Examiner, Banker Hall became assistant publicity director for the Harris bank, was a crack bond salesman at the time of the War, learned while overseas that he had been made sales manager of the bank's investment department. Stocky, round-faced, brown-eyed, bald, Banker Hall lives in swank Winnetka, golfs...
Princeton this year has many of its crack Freshman ten of a year ago who have been fairly intensive in blocking tactics and fundamentals, but little heavy scrimmaging was seen by first and second string players. Crisler feels that the Crimson will prove a dangerous opponent, although the odds seem to favor Nassau, and he is taking every precaution to try to insure victory...
Last week with two years of recovery behind them, 500 crack U. S. sales executives assembled in Manhattan for a two-day display of enthusiasm. Secretary of Commerce Roper soothed them. Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas, British propheteer, titillated them. President Thomas J. Watson of International Business Machines belabored them. President Allen Zoll of the International Association of Sales Executives told them: "I am . . . persuaded you will have a Democratic Administration for the next five years- whether you like...