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Word: crackings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course not, I did not crack a book," quoth the stripling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/10/1934 | See Source »

Josef Stalin heard last week in his mind's ear the groans of the dead and dying, the crack and crunch of wood & steel, which went to make up Russia's railroad disasters of the last month. He issued a decree: "Transport must improve. Some workers are so inefficient as almost to be wreckers. Unless their work improves, allegiance to the Communist Party will not save them." High spots in a month's wrecking which the Government dribbled out to the Press days late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Wreckers | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

...unnecessary contrasts between the unfortunate airmail crack-ups and the "snugness and warmness of the Senate Office Building''? . . . The entire article is shot through with ugly implications and vicious insinuations, the repeated inference being that the contracts were canceled merely in a misguided effort to make political capital, and that the Administration is unconcerned about the disasters resulting therefrom. As a deliberate, skillful, and unfair propaganda piece in opposition to the cancelation of the contracts, and questioning, by inference, the good faith of the Administration, it could scarcely be improved upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 26, 1934 | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...choppy water that afternoon. Primed by a robust meal of steak and beer the night before, the Oxonians carried their shell from the boathouse; as challengers, set it in the water first; pulled off sweaters and scarfs; waited. The Cambridge boat was ready in a moment. At the crack of a gun, 16 pairs of white arms swung in unison, off to a flailing 36-beat start. Oxford edged away to a half-length lead, held it for a while. The slower stroking but more powerful Cambridge sweep-swingers pulled alongside, passed at the mile. Wide open water separated them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Putney to Mortlake | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...indeed startling. I refer, of course, to the notice concerning "brother Kelton" in the Playgoer's column on page four. Considering how feminine a young lady Pert Kelton was only a picture or two ago, I find it quite remarkable that "he" can now fit a gangster part perfectly, crack a crib with "his" underlings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quibbler | 3/22/1934 | See Source »

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