Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hopefully the commander of Nanking's crack soldiers drawing near Sian, General Ku, announced: "Upon entering Sian, I am disposed not to assert authority but only give advice, when asked, for a preliminary period of three months. After that, if conditions have not bettered, I am resolved to take a firm stand...
...went well and his arm was still infact until he came to a package from the University of Masulipatsam, India. After dropping if in the slot he heard a lend crack and the sound of splinging weed, tollened by an avalanche of packages and wood on the other side of the deer. Rearing an explosion he hastily dumped the rest of his lead and left the building an mail...
...expenses and an assistant's salary. Funds come from the lawyers of the district who conceived the post, selected Lawyer McCormick for it. Born in Medina, N. Y., Karl McCormick attended the University of Buffalo's School of Law (1909). He and his wife are crack bridge players, live on Buffalo's Chatham Avenue two blocks from where President William Mclvinley was shot...
...Fifteen men and one woman rounded out the Dewey legal staff. The woman, Mrs. Eunice Hunton Carter, a young Negro lawyer and social worker schooled by Smith and Fordham and married to a Harlem dentist, was to prove one of his ablest trackers of prostitution and policy racketeers. Ten crack accountants were picked to search racketeers' bank records and the books of their reluctant victims. Prosecutor Dewey's second prime requisite was the wholehearted backing of top local officials. He got that from the Reform Administration of Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia. Tammany was unable to keep the Board...
...result was precisely what might have been expected-he made the world's greatest long-distance speed flight, set a new transcontinental record of 7 hr., 28 min., 25 sec. What set secretive Flyer Hughes in motion again was a rumor that someone was about to take a crack at his transcontinental record. Hustling out to Burbank from his home in Los Angeles after midnight, he rolled out his world-record racer, recently re-streamlined and given a 1,100-h.p. Twin Wasp Jr. so powerful that mechanics called the plane "a big engine with a saddle...