Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much in this band-baton-over-the-goal-post business. The Harvard baton wiedler missed twice before the game, making it only on the third try, and the team did all right. But maybe it was meant to symbolize Harlow's two unsuccessful and third triumphant crack at the Tigers
...investigator. Opening blast in the current squabble between Boss and Governor was fired by Boss Crump. Said he when he first heard about the unit plan: "The Sneak has the insane desire to go to the United States Senate. He would milk his neighbor's cow through a crack in the fence to accomplish that purpose...
Jovial Captain. Ernest Orlando Lawrence has an ideal temperament for a man who, in such a position, must be an educator and organizer as well as a crack physicist. He is jovial and easy-going but knows how to handle men and get things done. His grandfather was an immigrant from Norway, his father a schoolteacher. Born in South Dakota 36 years ago, young Ernest was a boyhood friend of Merle Anthony Tuve, now a brilliant physicist of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. One summer he clerked at night in a hotel, another summer he sold aluminum ware...
...after the gang's escape in Greenfield, James Dalhover, its "trigger man," walked into Dakin's store for the second time, to pick up his merchandise. Said he: "Where's the stuff I ordered?" The clerk who stepped forward was not Hurd but Walter Walsh, a crack G-man and specialist in trick shots. Walsh's job was to signal 13 more G-men, 30 Bangor patrolmen and a squad of Indiana and Maine State troopers posted outside the store as soon as a member of the Brady gang came in. As Walsh moved to pull...
...towering bluffs of Lookout Mountain cut the county off from its own State, help keep its population at less than five to the square mile. When highway construction-last month closed the road to Chattanooga, township Mayor I. H. Wheeler quickly asked the Southern Railway to stop its crack New York-New Orleans limited at Trenton to supplement the sole, inconveniently-timed local. The 10:25 a. m. northerly limited would land Trentonians half an hour later in Chattanooga, give them opportunities for business and shopping, while the southerly limited would carry them home again around 5 o'clock...