Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dean of the College, Oberlin chose Professor Carl Wittke, genial head of the history department at Ohio State, whose crack History of Canada is standard even in Canadian universities. The acting dean of men, Alumnus Donald Melbourne Love, then became Secretary of the College, succeeding retiring George M. Jones. From Lawrence College (Appleton, Wis. ), which recently lost its President Henry Merritt Wriston to Brown, Oberlin took Dean of Women Marguerite Woodworth, to replace ex-Dean of Women Mildred Helen McAfee who left Oberlin last year to become President of Wellesley (TIME, May 25). One outcome of this intercollegiate shuffling...
...area. Three weeks ago one of these crumpled and water poured through the leak. The engineers tried vainly to stem the flow with earth, gravel, brush. Then they thought of volcanic ash. When this is moistened it swells- like oatmeal-to 15 times the dry volume, tightly plugging every crack & cranny. Tons of the puffy paste were poured into the breach and the flow of invading water shortly ceased...
This year Ovson's hundreds of white-smocked girl workers at seven plants (Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas, Davenport, Moberly, Mo., Great Bend and Parsons, Kans.) will crack about 150,000,000 eggs by September. Ovson and other egg freezers concentrate on efficiency and sanitation, keep their eggs not more than ten days in cold storage before cracking. Ovson girls crack about 18 cases of eggs a day, smelling them all for mustiness. The yolks and whites are plopped into vats, strained and lightly churned. When plain yolks are canned separately they are likewise churned, but plain whites are sent...
...John Raby) to steal from his sister's sweetheart, a Holmes patrolman. Frank seems pretty smart to Johnny when he gets the two of them sent up for three years for a $10 robbery so they can hide out until the trouble blows over. But Johnny begins to crack when his sister's sweetheart is convicted of the murder and sent up to the death house. Frank persuades him that the only thing to do is to go over the wall with him and Scappa, who has got hold of two guns. Frank's private plan...
...money came from the Flin Flon, which he sold to the late Harry Payne Whitney. Since then he has had a hand in Pickle Crow and Red Lake. At 60, he still prospects by plane, summer and winter, is sometimes called "the gentleman adventurer of the mining world," sometimes "Crack-the-North- Open" Hammell...