Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side lines the pitching staff seems well fortified. Mitchell will have four starting hurlers that he can call upon for duty at any time. The quartet will also be about the hardest hitting pitching staff that Mitchell has gathered together for some time. Because of his exceptional ability to crack the ball Samborski is likely to be used in the outfield while not performing on the mound. The other half of the battery question seems far from being solved, however. Batchelder has just reported after a short rest following the hockey season, and the chances that he will...
...dawn. Sentries paced around nearby salt pans fearing Nationalist attacks. An Indian woman presented the Mahatma with a horse, to be used if any of the marchers fell sick. Little, glinting clouds of rupees were flung over the heads of the swarthy group, and on every hand sounded the CRACK, CRACK of cocoanuts broken asunder by the Hindus to assure good fortune. A volunteer band raised their horns and blared a few bars of "God Save the King" before they realized their mistake and subsided in brassy confusion...
Last week, however, when the House Judiciary Committee resumed hearings on resolutions to repeal the 18th Amendment, a first serious crack was found in Big Business solid support of Prohibition. Its Wet representatives spoke out their opposition loud enough for little men to hear...
Ordinarily a crack British freight line sells the old ships it is ready to discard to Lithuanians or Albanians et al.; but The Commercial pertinently recalls that several such old tubs have recently been broken up and sold for a song as junk, the owners preferring not to get a good price for them as ships for fear they would crop up in competition later, much as sellers of new automobiles look on "used cars" as a menace to their business...
...party affiliations Their Lordships were as mad as a nest of decrepit hornets, all because the House of Commons had poked them up with a law drafted by the Labor Government to pay more "dole" money to out-of-work Britons. To the house of hereditary loafers such a crack-brained scheme seemed nearly if not quite Bolshevik...