Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ablest professional players are less likely to be All-Americans than crack players from obscure teams, like Stapleton's Quarterback Bob Campiglio, from West Liberty Teachers, and the Giants' end, Ray Flaherty, from Gonzaga. Some professionals are discovered by scouts. Others, like the Giants' Fullback Mulleneaux, who arrived from Arizona as a hobo, ask for employment. Professional players who have been famed in college get salaries much higher than the average of $125 per game, during their first season. Minnesota's Bronko Nagurski, now fullback for the Chicago Bears, gets about $300. Cagle gets...
...that all the budget slashes and salary cuts which were called for by Mayor McKee and which were immediately nullified by the Tammany-controlled Board, will at last be realized. Nor will this work be easily undone, for so long as the bankers hold the mortgage, they can crack the whip...
...short distance from the village of Banyuls (Byrrh is also made close by, at Thuir) are made from other types of wines, to which are added essential oils from certain herbs, to give the requisite tastes, a certain amount of quinine, which gives the necessary coup de fouet (crack of the whip) to the appetite, a certain amount of sugar to counteract the bitter taste of the quinine, and a certain amount of alcohol to bring it up to or 18 degrees, which assures the stabilization of the mixture...
Defeat did not completely crush the sober spirits of the plump, brown little man whose grandmother was a Kaw princess. He got his first taste of vice-presidential privacy when, morning after election, he alighted from the Santa Fe's crack train, The Chief, in Chicago and was ignored by two newshawks and three cameramen sent to the station to cover Cinemactress Joan Bennett's arrival on the same train. Back in Washington he put on a brave smile and went about his business as usual. After his first call on his unlucky running mate at the White...
...forced down by low oil pressure into a "sea of mud." With improvised tools she made repairs, flew on, thought to powder her nose while crossing Table Mountain at Cape Town. Mrs. Mollison did not do what her husband did at the end of his record flight: crack up in landing...