Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Nanking in their clutch, the Reds struck and took east & west. Hankow, key to the middle Yangtze and the Pittsburgh of China, seemed ready to go the way of Nanking; a crack Red army from Manchuria, under General Lin Piao, was advancing hard from the north. In China's northwest, long-beleaguered Taiyuan, site of the biggest Nationalist arsenal below the Great Wall, fell before another Communist blow...
...have an interest here, then go quick to Professor Joshua Whatmough of Comparative Philology (see p. 4) and sign up for his department. Maybe in a few years you'll get a crack at Indic Phil
Buster Crabbe's Aquaparade of 1949 is frankly an experiment to see if a water show can travel from city to city successfully, an experiment to see it swimmers can crack the vast market now held jointly by the circus, the roller skating derbies, and the ice revues...
Last month, the Cavanaghs & Co. were persuaded to load themselves (and 32 crack ponies) on airplanes for the U.S. When the Argentines took the field at Los Angeles last week, against a hand-picked U.S. team, they learned that it was to be a championship match-and they let out a roar heard halfway to Buenos Aires. They had left flamboyant, red-headed Roberto, a nine-goal player,* at home. They played the match under protest...
...military aircraft performance, with special emphasis on speed. In the realm of speed it also has its king. He is Captain Charles ("Chuck") Yeager, 26, a modest, blue-eyed test pilot with an infectious grin and an easy West Virginia drawl. What makes Chuck Yeager outstanding, even among the crack pilots at Muroc, is the fact that his name is certain to go down prominently in aviation history books. Chuck Yeager was the first man to break through the dreaded "sonic wall" and fly faster than sound...