Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of Agriculture Hyde got President Hoover's permission to crack back at Nominee Roosevelt. Ridiculing the Democratic plan as "utterly visionary and chimerical," Secretary Hyde argued: "One man can plant about one acre or something near 1,000 trees a day. A million men, therefore, could plant 1,000,000,000 trees in a day. But all the nurseries in America do not possess 1,000,000,000 seedlings. They probably do not possess 200,000,000. But suppose there were 300,000,000 seedling trees available, 1,000,000 men could plant them in about three hours...
Curious onlookers and a special detail of police watched the B. E. F. drill, wondering if the new regime would stiffen or crack the B. E. F.'s morale, wondering why the men hung on anyhow, hoping for an impossible cash Bonus settlement from a Congress which had already denied it. Characteristic of the whole perverse, stolid affair was the new camp watchword: "Stick...
...results of the quarter and half were in doubt, not because anyone expected Stanford's crack middle-distance man Ben Eastman to be beaten in either, but because they wanted to see just how near the currently accepted world's records his times would be. Only a few people in the crowd, friends of Eastman who knew that he was recovering from a heavy cold, guessed he might be below his best form. In the quarter, they thought Karl Warner of Yale might make Eastman work. If that race tired him, Eastman would have trouble against Ben Hallowell...
...Francis Ouimet: his first golf tournament since winning the U. S. Amateur at Chicago last summer; the Massachusetts Open, at Osterville; with 287, one stroke better than a crack field which included Bobby Cruickshank, Wiffy Cox, Johnny Farrell...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's four-year-old racehorse Equipoise, who was retired early last season with a blind quarter crack: the Delavan Handicap at Arlington Park, defeating Jamestown, who had beaten him twice in 1930, by three lengths. Carrying top-weight of 128 lb., Equipoise covered the mile in 1 :34 2/5, or 3/5 sec. better than the world record for an oval track set by Jack High under 110 lb. at Belmont Park...