Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Symonds and Jakob Burckhardt on the Italian achievement during the XVth and XVIth centuries. It is the first book in a series entitled "Life and Art in Photographs," and if all the succeeding volumes are as good as this, one hopes that the series will cease only at the crack o' doom. Such praise is excessive, to be sure, but it is with genuine ardor that one turns these pages in search of reproductions of his favorites. It will serve no purpose to quarrel with Mr. Wickham over his omissions, which were necessary if the book was not to become...
...Venizelos' side were the mixed races of the Greek islands and of Thrace and Eastern Macedonia on the mainland, whence come Greece's crack troops, the kilted Evzones. For money he had his wife's fortune, estimated at $15,000,000, inherited from her father. He soon had the armored cruiser Aver off and the cruiser-minelayer Helle, either one of which is capable of blowing the rest of the Greek Navy out of the water. His best card was his battle cry that he was saving the Republic from the monarchist machinations of Premier Tsaldaris...
...crack scenarist like Riskin makes about $2,000 per week...
...tons of ore remaining among the lava flows probably average no more than 1% copper. To the West are bigger companies with richer ores. And Canada, Chile and South Africa, with huge 3% and 4% ore-bodies close to the surface, are waiting for tariff walls to crack...
...crack diving team of Henry Fitts and Bernard Merriam. It will perform against Smith and Nichols...