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Word: crackings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your crack, "if the war is staved off long enough," referring to World War III in an article describing guided missiles, is, I hope, not indicative of an editorial state of mind among TIME writers. This type of lighthearted cynicism ... can lead us all directly to destruction Wilmette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 21, 1947 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Withdrawals. In Manhattan, C.P.A. Lester A. Pratt, a serious student, divulged* that: 1) there are 210 ways to crack a bank without gun or dynamite; 2) bank officials and the help get away with $2 to $6 million a year; 3) 65% soon get caught-if they keep on working the same bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 21, 1947 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Another feature, planned by Bingham, will give members of the University first crack at tickets turned in late. Ticket-holders will be able to redeem their tickets until 5 o'clock on the Thursday, preceding the game. The H.A.A. will hold those tickets until noon on Friday for University students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.A.A. Alters Football Ticket System; Work Begun on 35 New Tennis Courts | 7/15/1947 | See Source »

...widespread" and must be taken seriously. Said the Paris newspaper L'Aurore: "Lamballe? Why, there is, in that old Breton village, a street called 'L'Impasse du Haha.' . . ."** For reasons that will remain obscure to Americans this is regarded in France as a brilliant political crack, explaining everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: L'Impasse du Haha | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...been a sudden slump, notably textiles, the readjustment had been made with no more than a tooth-shaking jar. Now there was hope that other adjustments could be made in a gradual, orderly fashion. So when businessmen talked of recession, most of them no longer meant a big, sudden crack un the whole economy, but a continuation, industry by industry, of the readjustment already under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recession Redefined | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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