Word: crackings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Owen, a tall, rangy, bushy-haired newspaperman, who was born on the border of Wales 35 years ago and calls himself Sudeten Welsh. Nine years ago, after building himself into a Laborite problem child in the House of Commons, he lost his seat in a Tory landslide, took a crack at foreign corresponding, wound up on the London Evening Standard of Lord Beaverbrook, whom he looks on as "a promising lad from the Dominions." This month the passion for work which keeps Editor Owen at his desk some 19 hours a day exploded in a series of blistering editorials, blasting...
...people who asked what was the use of newly discovered facts, Benjamin Franklin used to say, "What is the use of an infant?" The great Michael Faraday of England repeated the crack (with due credit) while lecturing on chlorine...
...marks plus a block of stock. Diesel moved his family into a lavish apartment, then into a lavish house in Munich, began pouring his money into oil and real-estate speculations. Most of these turned out badly. Lawsuits popped. The inventor's health began to crack, but he labored on, propping his strength with bromides and antipyrin. On a visit to the U. S., he met Thomas Edison, was deeply impressed by the U. S. inventor's simple, abstemious habits. When Diesel took his leave, Edison joked: "Don't eat too much...
...Republic) is no ordinary Gene Autry western. At busy little Republic studios, the cinema's most constant source of sagebrush sagas, the conventional eclogue on the majesty of ranch life has been switched to an offensive against the pitfalls of the city by showing the studio's crack cowboy taking a lacing from the rough, tough Wildhack Boys (Barton MacLane, Joseph Sawyer, Horace MacMahon) after a few months in a Hollywood broadcasting studio have softened up the Autry biceps. It is not a pretty sight...
...service the British air offensive, and service the blockade, these two mighty weapons will crack the hard core of Nazi industrial war power...