Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...verge of their degree or with a single term to complete. Bowe explained, had to be given the first crack at the high priority courses. The eligibility of the fifth-termers for the same material is a kink left over from three term per annum wartime acceleration...
...ball with a crack that sent 32,000 Brooklyn fans into an uproar. It was the league-leading Dodgers' first home game in three weeks, they led 1 to 0 and First Baseman Jackie Robinson had lined a drive to left center that looked like a sure triple. In center field, the Philadelphia Phillies' fleet Harry Walker started moving fast. As ball and outfielder converged under the floodlights, Walker pushed his spiked shoes in front of him, dropped to his rump, began to slide. At the last instant he stuck his gloved hand forward and gathered in Robinson...
History embarrasses the Columbia Broadcasting System. The subject is regarded at CBS as a gallingly large number of news events that the network's crack news staff was unable to cover. Last week, CBS covered its embarrassment with a series called CBS Is There. This week, the network time-machined a broadcaster back to 1492 and the deck of Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria. He reported...
Wags forecast that, in coming weeks, CBS would be there when Hannibal crosses the Alps, Socrates dies, and Alexander the Great cuts the Gordian knot. Cracked one CBStaffer: "The series need end only with the crack of doom-recorded and transcribed by CBS, of course...
Died. Robert H. Tyndall, 70, Republican mayor of Indianapolis, World War I commander of the crack Rainbow Division's 150th Field Artillery; of a heart attack; in Indianapolis...