Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hatcher fired a dean who had once opposed his promotion to a full professorship. Then he forced out able Dr. Beryl lies Burns, dean of L.S.U.'s crack medical school, and 27 staff doctors quit in protest (TIME, Nov. 12, 1945). His campus enemies called Hatcher "William the Conqueror," and many left rather than be conquered. Last week 58-year-old President Hatcher himself quit. Reason: ill health...
Incredible cold gripped the Whitehorse Valley of the Yukon. Nothing moved. If a man spat out of his doorway, the spittle exploded in mid-air with a sharp crack. It was 82.6° below zero; the lowest temperature ever recorded in North America. Aloft in the noonday gloom the wild, arctic winds tore mile-long snow streamers from the peaks and made a great yelling that the valley could not hear...
James McNeill Whistler's stock was going up. Bought from a Manhattan dealer by the Detroit Institute of Arts was the waspish Victorian dandy's famed Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket-the splattery nightscape that moved John Ruskin to a crack about "a coxcomb flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." (Bad Boy Whistler sued Ruskin for libel, won a farthing's damages.) Asking price for Nocturne that year (1875) was $1,000. Price reportedly paid by Detroit...
...witty U.S. correspondent of the London Times, was waiting for a spent and deadlocked Democratic convention to make up its mind between McAdoo and Smith. To a fellow newsman he remarked: "I've been around here so long I'm impinging on eternity." By last week his crack (like many he had minted) had become legendary among Washington correspondents, and Sir Bill, willing to impinge but not to intrude upon eternity, was getting ready to retire (at 69) from a career no living newsman could match...
...crack was effective: it got Haskell out of jury duty. It also got him out of his job. The New York Stock Exchange, which spent $750,000 last year on ads to keep callow lambs from gambling in the market, revoked Haskell's registration. Hutton, which also thinks "gambling" a naughty word, fired him. Said Exchange President Emil Schram: "He has a mistaken conception of the business in which he has been engaged...