Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle 19th Century softwood clipper ships raced with light cargoes from Australia and China to Europe, riding high, running dry, sailed by full crews of crack sailors, by masters who drove their ships under full sail all the way.∙ They carried tea and gold in a hurry. Last of the cargoes now carried in sail are Chilean nitrates and Australian wheat and wool. There is no hurry about getting cheap wheat from Australia to Britain. Sailing ships give free warehousing. On the long slow way the price of wheat may go up. Every winter since the War a fleet...
Last January Australians watched the first two of the old steel-hulled plugs sail off on the 15th race, reviving ghosts of the oldtime crack clippers, booming under sails like cumulus cloud banks. Until late April the others followed: 16 Finnish, two German, one Swedish, carrying a total of 900,000 bags of wheat. Some were so old that the sailors could not chip the hull for fear the chipping hammers would go clean through the plates. Built from 16 to 45 years ago, sailed on a capital representing scrap value, the ships were uninsured.† Their masters knew they...
...metre, possibly warm up the day before in the 800-metre heats. Bonthron won his heat in the 800-metre run. Next day he started out by winning the 1,500-metre race in 3:54. An hour later he was ready for a crack field in the 800-metre final. Eastman moved up to the lead in the home stretch, with five men bunched a stride behind him, Bonthron last of the five. While Eastman and Keller of Pittsburgh thought they were fighting for the lead, Bonthron took the outside lane by the Stadium wall and ran past...
...College and key man in Rhodes affairs on the west side of the water. Frank Aydelotte was an early Rhodes Scholar (1905-07). A shy country lad from Sullivan, Ind., he had gone to Indiana University, played football despite the admonitions of his parents and doctor, later coached a crack high school team. At Oxford, he rowed, played rugby. Back in the U. S., he taught English at Indiana University until 1915, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 1921. U. S. education was growing rich and vast and Frank Aydelotte's notion was that it needed culture. All very...
...their daughters go to the same school, that he knows two members of Cravath, Degersdorff, Swaine & Wood who advised Mr. Mitchell in income tax matters, but says he is not prejudiced. Mr. Medalie eliminates him by a peremptory challenge. Once the two lawyers shout at each other. Their voices crack. The judge quietly tells them to go on with the examination...