Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Cardinals, wild in the second inning when the American League scored its first run. had already given Detroit's Gehringer a base on balls. Now, pitching to Ruth, he made the mistake of trying to whip a strike across the plate. There was that sharp familiar crack and the ball sailed up over first base into the pavilion beyond right field...
...losing matches on the U. S. Ryder Cup team. In the U. S. their names were more familiar. One was blond Craig Wood, professional at the Hollywood Golf Club of Deal, N. J., a phlegmatic, long-driving golfer who took up the game after he had been a crack speedskater at Lake Placid, N. Y. Last year Wood earned more prize money than any other U. S. pro-$7,000. Second place for money winnings went to the young professional who was his opponent in last week's play-off-Hermon Densmore Shute, of the Llanerch Country Club, near...
...finish line, adding second honors to first for his ships. No other planes finished the race. Where were the Gee-Bee's? They had come to grief, and in the same place- Indianapolis. One, piloted by Russell Thaw, 22, modest, handsome son of Evelyn Nesbit & Harry Kendall Thaw, cracked up in landing for fuel. The other cracked up in taking off, mortally injuring its Pilot Russell Boardman. At Los Angeles, Jimmy Wedell won the main events of the next two days at 207 and 209 m.p.h. First mishap at the airport occurred when Cinemactor Hoot Gibson's plane...
...Tribune's biggest news story of the day swung down from an eight-column streamer: 100.1° HEAT IS JUNE RECORD But a much more important story stood in the editorial page, in a leader written to Publisher McCormick's order by one of his crack editorial writers, Tiffany Blake. Excerpts: ". . . The Tribune proposes ... to air condition the Tribune Tower. The improvement at this stage is complicated and expensive but it will represent a notable contribution to progress. ... In the perpetual experimentation which has marked the evolution of the great Tribune plant [errors, disappointments, expense] have never checked...
...Embobora II, when its tiller inexplicably came loose in his hand. Down upon him bore a dory. There was a smash-bang amidships and the next thing Alexander Throttlebottom knew he was thrashing about beneath his own overturned craft. He tried to duck out on one side only to crack his head on wreckage, see stars. Down he went again, coming up on the other side. Breathless, and his foot bruised, Alexander Throttlebottom was finally hauled into the dory after the most distressing experience since he was mis taken for a waiter by the convention managers who nominated...