Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first 200 miners to reach the mine-deep were lowered to the end of the shaft and the cars were reeled back to the starting point. Some 250 more miners scrambled on the 26 little cars and started down the slope. Suddenly there came a cannon-like crack-the cable had snapped off about 1,000 feet behind the last car. "She's running away!" shouted one collier...
...been the work-horse type, not the natural, born swimming flash. He brought Hutter's 100-yard time down from 57 seconds in his Freshman year to a brilliant, consistent 52 seconds in the Junior and Senior years. He converted Dario Berizzi from a mediocre distance man to a crack butterfly breastroker. He helped Don Barker wend his way from the ranks of the House tankmen to eventually become a 23 second...
Down from the Rockies and across the flats of Utah one morning last week pounded the Flying Ute, crack fast freight of the Denver & Rio Grande Western and a great favorite with hobos. Coming into Midvale. 10 miles south of Salt Lake City, she was two hours late by fog, snow, sleet...
Written in collaboration with Ann Honeycutt McKelway, ex-wife of the New Yorker's Editor St. Clair McKelway, the book takes a crack at almost every other amateur theory and legend about dogs, their likes & dislikes, habits and diseases. Because the authors have a sense of humor, the book manages to get across painlessly a good many answers to such questions as how to get a dog and how to feed, train and take care of him once you do. Some sound advice for city dog-owners: never buy a grown dog; never put a puppy on the street...
...level $400,000,000 greater than last year, is again proving to be a mere teaser. All this greatly amused Germany's Reichsbank Governor Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. With German industrial production up 100% in five years, he took occasion in a Berlin speech to praise a "directed economy," crack that Germany had not needed to "finance consumption through the arbitrary scattering of money by the State...