Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief dissenter was General Li Tsung-jen, powerful military leader of Kwangsi, a South China province neighboring Canton, who patched up his long-standing quarrel with the Generalissimo when hostilities started eleven months ago. In the tortuous back-stepping before the Japanese the Generalissimo has repeatedly pulled his own crack German-trained divisions from the front lines first, leaving the raw, ill-equipped mass of his army, largely composed of provincial troops, to cover the retreat. This, coupled with Chiang's hesitancy in sending the Chinese Air Force, concentrated at Hankow, to the aid of Canton, led to persistent...
...Cowley, crusaded as editor of the Dartmouth against class fights and other hallowed horseplay, induced the college to re-study and eventually change its curriculum. His classmates voted that he had "done most for Dartmouth," was "most likely to succeed." From Dartmouth, husky Bill Cowley, who had taken a crack at newspapering and industrial personnel work before graduation, went to the Bell Telephone Laboratories and then to University of Chicago, where he had charge of vocational guidance and placement. Since 1929 he has been head of the personnel division of the Bureau of Educational Research at Ohio State University...
...first baby giant panda last week was occasion for a greeting such as transatlantic fliers once got. But three days earlier, Chicago's Daily News published an article which suggested that giant pandas are not so rare and valuable as the U. S. considers them. Archibald T. Steel, crack China War correspondent, reported taking a day off from the battle front to explore panda territory. Excerpts: "Pandas are not rare. . . . Giant panda prices, f.o.b. Chengtu, range between 25 and 180 American dollars per head, although the latter is regarded locally as fabulously high.*. . . Panda pelts are a drug...
After 53 years of removing foreign objects from the stomachs and lungs of 50,000 patients (mostly children), Philadelphia's crack bronchoscopist, 72-year-old Dr. Chevalier Jackson, announced his imminent retirement, said he would spend the rest of his life lecturing to parents on leaving swallowable things about...
...admit he's got. This inexhaustible national resource is the inspiration of many a popular song (Nobody's Sweetheart; I Got Plenty of Nothin;'), of many a Negro spiritual and folksong. But it has been passed up by most U. S. poets. The first one to crack this national theme wide open, to taste all its implications and to manage to spit them out in undeviating American language, is Edward Estlin Cummings...