Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, after 1935, the problem of training was tackled in relation to age and physical fitness, and to various amounts of daily exercise. For these tests, the Fatigue Lab doctors had a chance to study on their treadmill in 1937 a few crack runners like Glen Cunningham, Don Lash, Archie San Romani, Chuck Fenske, Gene Venske, and Sid Robinson. And measurements were obtained that set new records in human power...
Theirs was the strangest battlefront in the world. Six months ago, when the Japs crossed the Salween River on their drive up the Burma Road, crack units of China's Army rushed in and drove the Japs back across the river, then took up a 200-mile-long position on the Salween's east bank. In the terrible summer heat and torrential rains of the pestilential country, they settled down to a nightmare existence...
...second best army in Europe today. Its general staff, under sagacious, diminutive, popular General Henri Guisan (the fourth general in Swiss history),* has built in the Alps a kernel of defense which an army thrice the size of the Swiss Army (600,000 men) might need valuable months to crack. The Swiss Army can be mobilized in half an hour...
Some promoters have seized upon the commercial aspects of the Army Postal Service, established radio clubs whose members pledge themselves to write letters to soldiers every week in return for lapel pins. Last week the War Department was looking for a way to crack down on such schemes, to make sure soldiers got the letters they wanted to get instead of just letters. Meantime, the perspiring Army Postal Service continued to slog through higher & higher mountains of mail. Only one thing was constant: 10% of all overseas letters were misdirected...
...none of these apes can muscle in on the Loop because the cops control that section pretty thoroughly. Still, that's where all the banks are. . . . You know, José, something like rich colonies . . . owned by the British and French empires. So Dutch and Muscles [Mussolini] decide to crack the Loop, whether Patrolman Hull and Officer Churchill like it or not. Up to now the hoodlums have always played ball pretty well with Big Joe. But now they decide to cross...