Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason for the crack tennis teams at North Carolina is the fact that tennis there has all the earmarks of a major sport. Partly because the climate favors the game almost all year round, partly because a tennis tradition has grown up, there are over 50 courts. North Carolina's tennis competition with Duke is unique. There are 200 players on a side. Another reason is North Carolina's tennis coach, brown little John Kenfield who has been going down to Chapel Hill between seasons at the Lake Shore Country Club at Glencoe, Ill. since 1928. That spring...
...boost to Chinese morale was the energetically spread rumor that Germany's crack Drillmaster General Hans von Seeckt ("the man with the iron mask and the monocle") was coming to train Chinese armies. The old Junker who organized the Reichswehr. happened to be on a world tour of the Far Kast last week. Before he left Berlin he had left blanket denials that he was going anywhere to drill anybody...
...with a two-goal man. Harvey Shaffer, at back. Only drawback in last week's tournament was the fact that the Aknusti team which won the Eastern title did not go out West to make the final three-cornered. Chicago polo enthusiasts hoped that the presence of the crack Army team at Fort Sheridan might cause the sulky cliques of socialites, who for years have played polo in & about Chicago on separate fields and with highly distinct organizations, to forget their differences, build up one or two teams good enough to rank with the best...
...Britain. Italy's efforts to regain the record took a frightful toll. She had pinned her hopes on a Macchi seaplane with a 2,800-h. p. Fiat motor driving two propellers. One after another these machines dove into Lake Garda, carrying to death in turn the crack pilots of the high speed school-Monti, Bellini, Dal Molin. Neri-until last month when Agello triumphed. British airmen maintain that the Macchi's phenomenal speed is due to a reduced wing span which makes its landing speed more than two miles a minute, a lower safety factor than...
...holding a target practice and instruction in jiu-jitsu and disarming tomorrow night," he announced. "Not that we anticipate any riots," he grinned, "but we want to organize a pistol team to meet the crack Boston team. Until now our men have confined their sport to baseball and indoor contests. The shooting begins at 8 o'clock tonight and I imagine we could let some of you watch it, in case you want to see what you may have to cope with some fine night...