Word: crackings
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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...
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...
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...
...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...
...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...