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Word: crackings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rare is the celebration or exposition which, when held, is not claimed as "my idea originally" by a camp following of crack-pate "inventors." Rarer is the inventor who actually did have the idea and, rarer still, got paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Fair Idea | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Coach Clipper Smith, whose Wildeat teams have been tied but undefeated in 20 games since 1936, voiced the opinion that Texas Tech "was on the upgrade" but that Villanova had hoped for a crack at Texas Christian, Carnegie Tech "or a team of that calibre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 12/1/1938 | See Source »

...College students and faculty last week indignantly organized commit tees, with slogans and verse campaigned to keep their college open, many an edu cator wondered whether Teachers College's pioneering influence over U. S. education was beginning to crack up. Progressive Edu cation Association's directors urged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Trouble at T. C. | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Meanwhile Stanford piled up three times their opponents yardage and, by the last period, they had broken down the Dartmouth forward wall and were gaining at will. Easterners had hoped to crack the mythical "bigger and betterness" complex of western gridmen, and now they have got some explaining...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Dartmouth Lets Down Hopes Of East in Defeat on Coast | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...Liberty Bell is silent and mute With a crack in its side from its pealing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 11/23/1938 | See Source »

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