Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talk about his quiet manner and his witty speech, and why, do you think, he should be coming to these islands?--long after he had retired for the night. And they never dreamed that while they talked Mr. J. M. Synge listened from his room through a crack in the ceiling and copied their strange idioms into a little notebook...
Neighborly Suit. Strong old First National Bank did not crack and topple last autumn but the 54-year-old First National Bank building at Wall Street & Broadway did. Immediate cause was the excavating alongside First National for an addition to Bankers Trust Co. (TIME Oct. 19, 1930). First National promptly moved to temporary quarters at No. 52 Wall, awaiting completion of a new $2,000,000, 20-story building on the old site...
...evolutionary futility of the gradually disappearing lungfish looks to the Anglican priest like a crack in the Divine Plan. Joel does his best to widen the crack by comparing Man's brain to Kamongo's lung, both ingenious developments, neither leading anywhere much. Joel likens life to whirlpools in a stream of energy, likens the living matter of cells and bodies to inorganic rubbish whirlpool-caught. The gyroscopic adjustment of the whirlpool to obstacles in its course gives an illusion of intelligent purpose to the rubbish it holds together. Really, all the purpose animating the rubbish is to spin...
...centre of which they had drawn a circle. After a solemn soprano chant the maidens pricked their fingers deeply, held them over the circle until it grew red and the cloth became the flag of Japan. This flag the seven schoolgirls dispatched to Crown Prince Chichibu's crack 3rd Regiment which is part of the Imperial forces still holding Shanghai...
...best parliamentarians in the House. Representing a poor upper-East-Side district of Manhattan, he has developed a political philosophy which is definitely radical. He distrusts wealth, individual or corporate, believes it should somehow be redistributed for the good of all. Yet he does not sponsor crack-brained ideas for easy hand-outs to abolish poverty. He is sincere, earnest, hard-hitting, but even his legislative foes do not call him unfair. His chief weakness is that he has no responsibility except to himself and his own conscience...