Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When cannon boomed from Santiago de Cuba in 1898, Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson, temporarily down the coast on his crack, three-funneled flag-cruiser New York, turned her and raced back in time to see the last ship of Cervera's squadron sink, in the second and decisive naval battle of the Spanish War. That cruiser, then five years old, has served ever since, is now the oldest active U. S. fighting ship. In 1912, on the launching of the battleship New York, she was rechristened Saratoga and relegated (though as flagship) to the Asiatic fleet...
National League. The batter dug his spikes into the dust beside the plate, pulled down his cap, swung back to wait for the first pitch. It was Woody English, wiry Chicago third-baseman, coming up in the tenth with one out and the score tied. At the crack of his clean single the record crowd, spreading down over the grandstand terraces into roped-off areas along the sidelines, began to stir and shout. Kiki Cuyler lined out to Hendrick but then Hack Wilson hit safely and Taylor smacked the ball into the overflow crowd at the right, bringing...
...York. Samuel Finkler, 25, took his girl friend Sarah Berkowitz into Bronx Park at night to spoon. Hearing the big bough under which they were reclining crack she sprang away, saw Samuel Finkler crushed and killed...
...Post. It applied all the high-pressure business technique of the adroit and powerful Bonfils & Tammen. The Brothers Murdock at first affected to ignore the newcomers but rural Kansas editors have found that an almost certain way of getting themselves quoted in the Murdocks' Eagles is to take a crack at the (to them) unspeakable Levands. Some of these cracks, which the Brothers Levand say are "inspired" by the Brothers Murdock, are too much for even the Mur docks to reprint. For example, Editor Paul Jones of the Lyons Daily News, under the headline "Ye Gods!" wrote...
...handful of the Hindus broke and ran, while not a Sikh stirred. Women, whom the police were ordered not to strike, rushed to try and put themselves in the way of blows. Correspondent Farson saw one woman hold up her baby and endeavor to secure for it a crack on the head. When he expressed his horror to her through an interpreter she remained unmoved, anxious to sacrifice her babe to the Cause...