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Word: crackings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where the Canadian Open golf championship was played last week. Otherwise, it is not a difficult course, a little shorter- 6,545 yd.-than most links selected for big tournaments. The contestants were less worried by the course than by each other. It was probably the best field of crack golfers that has ever competed in the increasingly important Canadian Open -which has not been won by a Canadian since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Canadian Open | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

Astounding to those Britons who think St. Gandhi a crack-brained fakir is the fact that the Royal Commission's conclusions are substantially those which the Mahatma has trumpeted for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: St. Gandhi Yessed | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...cannot permit my old boyhood home town of Fargo to be shorn of any of her glory, for she has performed this trick twice. Back somewhere in the go's the best my time-dimmed memory will do, the Northern Pacific's crack limited of that bygone period moved westward out of Fargo early one morning. A mile west from town was the Big Slough across which ran an earthen fill. As the train reached this causeway a tornado struck it and turned every Pullman of the train on its side. But in this case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1931 | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

Incidentally, just outside Moorhead a playful twister tossed The Empire Builder, crack transcontinental flier, in a wheatfield recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1931 | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...less than a length behind, still gaining. The Washington stroke, John Ginger, bothered by having to watch the Navy boat as well as Cornell, stepped up his stroke to 38. In the Cornell boat, Burke had stopped watching Syracuse and was telling his crew that the Navy would surely crack in a minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Rowing | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

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