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Word: crackings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offer, would be an act of supreme discourtesy to Heidelberg and to the reputation that it has built up over five centuries. The Harvard Student Union is merely trying to make an issue of a non-political problem, because it is unable to resist any opportunity to take a crack at the Germany Government of today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLANK CARTRIDGE | 5/6/1936 | See Source »

John Q. Dohp's real name is David Oliver. A crack cameraman who has cranked for Universal and other companies for 18 years, David Oliver has also been an energetic parlor mimic. When his friends told him he belonged in pictures, he modestly denied it. His unpremeditated debut on the screen took place when Universal editors decided its sweepstakes newsreel needed the shot of a loser as a closing touch. Cameraman Oliver remembered that he held a worthless ticket, volunteered to act the role. It was good enough to call for an Easter encore. Last week, after sizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dohp | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...Jaakko's record as head coach has been very successful, his teams winning the Quadrangular Meet and coming third in the I.C.A.A.A.A. meet this winter. In spring track the team won the G.B.I. meet handily in spite of the absence of four crack hurdlers who went down to the Penn relays to set a new record in the 480-yard shuttle hurdles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO SUCCESSOR FOR MIKKOLA HAS YET BEEN CONSIDERED | 5/1/1936 | See Source »

Coach Cowles' veteran aggregation should not experience difficulty with Amherst in spite of C. L. Winston, the crack number 1 man of the visitors. The latter, however, may prove too powerful for Jim Thackera, who also has a hard match coming with Paul Guibord of Dartmouth. The Big Green will invade the Crimson's courts on Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENNIS TEAM OPPOSES AMHERST NETMEN TODAY | 4/23/1936 | See Source »

...puppet as President of Mexico. But at last the Party had found a man who sincerely believed in its program. Impassively, almost imperceptibly, prim-faced Cárdenas undercut Calles by giving the people some of the things Calles had promised them. When, last year, Calles suddenly tried to crack down on his man, he found that Cárdenas had sewed up the loyalty not only of the peasants and workers but of the Army as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Solution Without Blood | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

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