Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floor. There are closets with sliding glass doors for towels and clothes. There are shadowless mirrors. The bathroom denizen may stand on a given spot in the floor and see his weight indicated on the wall in front of him. The bathroom, not of porcelain which may crack or "craze," is of rough- surfaced iron, | in. thick, coated with enamel. A color may be baked on: T'ang red, clair de lune blue, Ming green, rose du Barry, orchid de Vincennes...
...headed off. Why not the Brown Derby again? Mr. Smith wondered why not. What if he had said he would not seek office? His friends wanted him. He had taken a bad beating in 1928 when times were good. By rights, he could tell himself, he deserved another crack at the Presidency when times were bad and a Democrat could...
...first National Convention which he, too, was to report for the New Republic at 2¢ a word. Publisher Henry Goddard Leach of the Forum looked on austerely from a private box. Scripps-Howard Colyumist Heywood Broun settled his flaccid paunch behind a narrow desk, wrote many a witty crack...
...time is during some future European war. Scientific murder is perfected now. Over the battlefront hangs, pall-like, a colorless deadly plaid woven of beamless rays that no airplane can pierce. Beneath this pall the long entrenched lines, locked together, writhe and push. Should the westerly line crack, the alien hordes will roar through, flood the lands beyond with death or with their super-mechanized civilization worse than death...
After Samuel Insull's gigantic utility empire began to crack up (TIME, April 18 et seq.), people thought the bankers would keep the Dean of Utility Operators to help them salvage the wreckage. But last week 73-year-old Samuel Insull resigned from the chairmanship of his three finest operating properties, Commonwealth Edison Co., Peoples Gas, Light & Coke Co., Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois. Said he: "Due regard for my health necessitates my retirement. . . ." He also re-signed as one of the three receivers of Middle West Utilities, subject to court approval. But La Salle & Wall Streets, noting...