Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second among the outstanding performers for the Freshmen is their captain, Al Hanlon, a crack middle distance man. Al's home stretch sprints have been one of the most beautiful pieces of track work seen in the Stadium this year. Usually off the last corner last, Hanlon has been consistent in overcoming his adversaries leads to come home a winner. He will be another factor next year when he puts on a Varsity jersey...
...Open up!" ordered the Sheriff of Orange County, rapping at the front door of a rickety ten-room frame house next to Gordonsville, Va.'s cemetery one afternoon last week. The answer was a rifle crack. A bullet plowed through the door straight into the sheriff's heart. Leaving his body crumpled on the porch, his two companions turned and fled, sure now that the old Negro cemetery caretaker, William Walles, and his old sister Cora, had gone completely...
...space. But in sleeping bags within their tiny tents a group of Englishmen and tough Tibetan porters out to conquer unconquered Mt. Everest (29,140 ft.) rested contentedly last week. Camp No. 3 had been safely established at 21,500 ft. Francis Sydney Smythe and Eric Earle Shipton,both crack Alpinists and members of the unsuccessful...
...legal profession, and the lawyers, choice victims ever since Plato's time, take another merry trouncing. There is a mirthful experiment in indoor reverberation and a comical discourse on abnormal psychology, debunking the almost proverbial specialist from Vienna. And, as a final endearing gesture, Mr. Cooper takes a crack at the money-changers, and dabbles in amateur Communism. And every bit of this widespread appeal manages to click...
...even in those days of well curried whiskers and dapper costumes, Max Keezer had his predecessor, one "Poco" Bennet. "Max is a nicer fellow than Poco, though," reminisced Mr. Taylor, "Poco never used to crack a smile...