Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nineteen prep and high schools of New England have entered 164 crack swimmers for the Third Annual Harvard Interscholastic Swimming Meet, which will be held tomorrow afternoon and evening in the pool at the Indoor Athletic Building...
This morning the Vagabond will get up at the crack of dawn to look at the pile of maps on his desk, and at nine o'clock will go to the New Lecture Hall to take his examination in History...
...Office inspectors, Secret Servants toiled all one night under the direction of Madam Director Ross carting the precious canvas-wrapped bricks from the Philadelphia Mint. By next morning they had their precious load packed neatly in four mail coaches of a special nine-car train that was manned by crack machine gunners concealed behind drawn blinds. With right of way cleared, the train chuffed off on its 530-mi. journey. Several hundred yards in front of the gold train went a dummy freight train...
...rough air. United's sacrifice of seven seats, though partially offset economically by increased cargo capacity, still leaves a 30% reduction in normal DC-3 payload. Therefore United made its new "Skylounges" the world's first extra-fare planes, imitating the standard practice of special trains and crack liners. In addition to the normal New York-Chicago fare of $47.95, passengers are surcharged...
...climax case which excited lawyers of the country all the way up to the U. S. Solicitor General, Senior Law Clubs concluded their two years mock court Ames competition Friday night, with the members of the "Root-Pitney" club winning the palm as crack law team of the school...