Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John P. Davis, Negro: I speak my bitterness today without malice. . . . The threat of displacement against Negroes is most damnable and unAmerican. ... If NRA really wants to crack down they should put an anti-displacement clause in the NIRA...
...Timken 1G.B., Edwin I. Brainard '35, and John L. Bonney '36 in the dashes. Cortlandt V. Hubbard '34, and John B. Little '36 will swim in the breaststroke event, and Charles N. Breed '36 and Victor D. O'Brien '36 have been selected for the backstroke race. The crack relay team of John M. Timken, William R. Timken, Benney, Brainard and Paul D. O'Brien are favored to carry off the 200-yard relay event...
Your second error was in regard to Moe Goldman. He was not knocked unconscious in the Temple game, but got a bad crack on the nose which caused an external bleeding; in fact he could hardly breathe all through the second half. Since that game, he has been playing with a cumbersome noseguard, which although everybody would expect it to, did not detract from his playing, as one can see by his performances against Providence, against whom he scored twelve points and against Rutgers . . . (City...
...clock guns boomed in the distance, followed by the dull patter of muffled drums.* A detachment of mounted police in blue capes and white helmets led the procession. Then came the Guides, Belgium's crack infantry regiment, with little tassels dangling from their caps. British sailors followed, and behind them a dismounted detachment of the 5th Inniskilling Dragoons, the British regiment of which Albert was Colonel-in-Chief. French troops preceded the Paris post of the American Legion. The flags of the Belgian Army formed a quilt of fluttering black, yellow and red against the grey sky. Every regiment...
...hoped, that the axiom in this instance may justly apply. These references have to do with your editorial of February thirteenth, in which, under the nom de plume Nemo, and with freedom of expression that is startlingly unique, you crack open the nut of smug, self-conceit, and expose the "Kernel" (Charles A. Lindbergh) in most commendable fashion...