Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final frame, Dow played a crack defense game for Harvard and Pruyn was on all parts of the ice at once. Baldwin shot the puck into the cage twice, and the Crimson men hovered around the Brown net like bees returning to the hive. Chase and Captain Brown put up an admirable defense throughout the game but could not stand against the Crimson tide...
Winning their fifth consecutive game of the season the crack Freshman basketball team overwhelmed the M.I.T. first year men by a score of 57-31 at the New Indoor Athletic Building last night...
Inside the palace at that instant Little Tsar Boris and Alexander Malinoff, president of the assembly, were trying to pick a successor for Premier Nicolas Mouscha-noff. just resigned. CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! A volley of shots rattled the tall windows. His Majesty and his minister scampered to the tall portieres just in time to see the hunting dogs, yelping furiously, disappear in the distance while the hunters, the editor and his bodyguards blazed blindly away. Out from their sentry hutches dashed the royal guards to open fire on both parties indiscriminately. A policeman and a window watcher...
...paper bags. Dr. Philip Gootenberg, president of New Jersey's Consolidated Sportsmen, had thought up the idea. The U. S. Department of Commerce had waived its regulation against throwing things from airplanes in flight. Paterson's Wright Aeronautical Corp. had lent a plane and crack pilot. Three times Dr. Gootenberg soared up from Paterson, flew low over inaccessible, snow-covered woodlands, pelting down 750 bags filled with corn, wheat, millet, rye. Consolidated Sportsmen was also busy last week adding 75 bird self-feeders to the 125 it has already placed in remote New Jersey swamps and forests...
...panel of ten U. S. athletes, was closer this year than when Bobby Jones won in 1930, not so close as when Barney Berlinger won by two votes over Helene Madison year ago. Second on the list, with 648 votes to Bausch's 687, was Pennsylvania's crack quarter-miler Bill Carr, of whom the Sullivan Committee said: "Outstanding in his character and leadership ... a member of Phi Beta Kappa . . . winner of Olympic 400 metre championship in new world's record time...