Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...therefore, with the deepest regret that we learn of the suspension of the Smith "Tatler" because of an article printed in its October issue which offended the college maids and waitresses. We do not feel that a college should have the power to crack down on a publication for any reason less serious than arson or murder...
They put him on the Reuben James. She was one of the old four-stacker crack-erboxes that were finished too late for the other war; she was two years older than he, and shrewish in a choppy sea. But he got to like her, learned to refer to her as Rube and developed a heap of respect for the commanding officer, Lieut. Commander Heywood L. Edwards. That name Heywood did not mean a thing: it was better to call him Tex and pay heed to his calm voice: he was six feet two and used to be an Olympic...
...south the Germans threw their greatest effort against a little swampy neck of land only four miles wide. They were determined to crack the Perekop Isthmus and overrun the Crimean Peninsula, no matter what the cost...
...meaning of President Roosevelt's recent announcement that the U.S. is going to double its tank program may in a few months hit the U.S. with something of a pleasant shock. The U.S. Army's Armored Force already has two crack divisions in the field, three in training, another about to be organized, plus 15 separate battalions. But it is now obvious that this force, far from being a military sapling, is little more than an acorn...
...month 100 Britons enter Jacksonville, Pensacola and Corpus Christi. Like Army airmen, Navy instructors find that the first stages of their courses often prove baffling. But after catching the hang of language, speed and precision, the British students average out about the same as American boys, with a few crack pilots, plenty above average, none that are dopes; the washout system takes care of that...