Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impression of Harvard is that it is "cold and dank" and he laments "the lack of individualistic opportunity." He is confident of a British victory in the present war, praising the English morale with the remark, "I know it is excellent. They are just itching to get a crack at the Fritzos...
Yale may use any one of ten defenses, and Harvard must be equipped with plays to crack each one of them. Yale out passed both Cornell and Princeton, two of the most aerial-minded elevens in the country, and, barring bad weather, should give Crimson defenders their best workout of the year...
...Kansas in 1935 by George Fryer Sternberg of Fort Hays Kansas State College. Since many other fossil pearls had been previously discovered, the college museum did not pay much attention. Recently Sternberg shipped his stony, lacklustre treasures off to the Smithsonian for an expert appraisal. The Smithsonian's crack Paleontologist Roland Brown examined them with enthusiasm, dashed off a scientific report, last week pronounced them the finest fossil pearls, for size and shape, ever collected...
...second time in a row the New Deal had beaten the majority of the press in a Presidential election. Did it now mean to crack down...
...have to work with"; namely, an almost brand new $275,000 plant including even the latest in patented tulip-trap-door poles for the men to slide down. In fact, the only bit of equipment which the chief would like to add at the moment is a "shillalah" to crack automatically the skull of anyone sending in a false alarm from the box in front of the Lampoon. Last year this box established a new record of five false alarms in one night. Such needless trips and careless smoking are the chief grievances the Chief can recall against Harvard students...