Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, around Nanking utterly raw, undrilled Chinese youths, most of whom scarcely knew how to use a rifle, were flung against advancing Japanese regulars, and horribly butchered. The crack, German-drilled Chinese 88th Division under ruthless officers, conserving its own strength, drove the Chinese recruits forward and shot in the back those who broke and ran. Twelve miles from Nanking 300 Chinese were surrounded atop a hill by Japanese who set fire to the long grass. It set fire to the trees, burned fiercely completely around the hill, slowly forcing the 300 Chinese to the top. There Japanese machine guns...
President-elect Erb (son of Dr. John Lawrence Erb, now head of the music department at Connecticut College For Women), is a University of Illinois graduate, a Harvard Ph.D. and a crack economist. He was a professor of economics at Oregon for six years, in the last year had been acting head of the economics department at Stanford University...
...standard Pullman berths or paid a premium to use walled compartments, drawing rooms or bedrooms. Last year Pullman Co. built two experimental sleepers, named them Progress and Advance (renamed California and Bear Flag), loaned them to various railroads in the East and West for tryouts. Progress was a crack modern observation car; Advance a de luxe double-decker with nine rooms "down stairs" and seven on the upper level reached by individual stairs. This spring another experimental car, the Roomette, was submitted to U. S. railroads (TIME, April 26). As a result of these experiments the Pullman Co. last week...
...again started on her weathering sister ship on the keel site of 1914. In 1922, two years after Danzig became a Free City, the graceful beauty was launched, christened the Columbus. Until the advent of the Bremen and Europa seven years later she was Germany's largest ship, crack vessel of its mercantile marine; then the Columbus fell into third place. Re-turbined in 1929, the Columbus filled in with her two big sisters for the transatlantic busy season, began her famed winter cruises...
...Postum Building in Manhattan, a portrait of his father over the fireplace, a bust of Lincoln, his favorite character, above his silvering head, Colby Chester shares the corporate detail with President Clarence Francis, devoting more & more of his time to semi-public service. Slight, quiet, earnest, he is a crack tennis player and the best golfer in the company. For some wholly mysterious reason his friends have always called him "Clare...