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Word: crackings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Journal is concerned, the libel was not softened by attributing the claim to "Meanwell protagonists." In presenting news reports of Wisconsin's great unpleasantness, the State Journal hewed to the line, was neither pro nor con anything or anybody. After both doctors had been dismissed, it did editorially crack down on the athletic board for painting Spears dark black, Meanwell lily white, upholding the board of regents' contention that the aspersions cast on Spears were unfair and unjustified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1936 | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...still about $1,000,000,000 under prosperity levels. And bonds clamor for interest in even the worst of times. The fixed charges, mostly bond interest, of U. S. railroads are still in the neighborhood of $700,000,000 a year. This is the hardest nut for railroaders to crack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Condition of Carriers | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

What is holding up standardization is neither engineering technology nor corporate rivalry but the operators' and manufacturers' dread that the Interstate Commerce Commission or the Post Office Department may crack down with a decision that such co-operation would be "collusion against the public good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: United Sleeplanes | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

They still were last week. As Marshal Badoglio's war machine lumbered and built roads and climbed forward, Italy's crack troops scaled the terrific 11,000-ft. heights of grim Mount Alaji (25 miles farther on) and the flag of Italy was again fairly up on the great Ethiopian Plateau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR: The Ethiopians Are Licked! | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

Glidden, always a smooth tournament player went through three quick games with hardly a fault, making numerous "boast shots" which crack three walls and finally nick a corner to fall dead on the floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: G. G. GLIDDEN DEFEATS R. W. GILDER IN SQUASH | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

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