Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crack passenger train between New Orleans and Chicago. On the midnight run of March 18, 1900, with Mardi Gras guests abroad. Casey Jones saw a crash coming with the rear-end of a freight train near Vaughns, Mississippi. He did all he could to prevent it, pulled on the air-brakes, threw his engine into reverse. Then he yelled to the fireman: "jump if you want to save your neck." But Casey Jones, no jumper, stayed with his locomotive and died instantly in the crash...
Prospects for the Freshman indoor crack team are good, especially with the report of several members of the 1932 football squad for the pre-season practices...
...This Heinrich, like his wife Magda, the schoolmaster, the barber, and the pastor, was a simple peasant. All his life he had worked on the bell to hang in the church tower-so long, so hard that, when the bell crashed down the mountainside into the lake, his heart cracked too, would not mend until Rautendelein kissed him and took him with her into the forest. There, with new youth, new courage, he started a second bell, sang praises as he worked. But when the pastor found him, asked him what church the bell was for, he weirdly said...
Last week, while engineers of the Pennsylvania Railroad proceeded with plans to electrify its trunk lines from New York to Philadelphia (TIME, Nov. 12), lawyers reviewed the intricate financial network across which the Pennsy spins its tracks. Every passenger, dining on a crack New York-Philadelphia train, knows he is eating Pennsy food, sitting on a Pennsy chair, riding in a Pennsy car on Pennsy wheels. But not every passenger knows he is riding over the lines of the United New Jersey Railroad & Canal...
...astronomer's vision, quadruple the amount of light that at present can be caught from the stars. The great mirror, about 17 feet in diameter, is possible because Professor Elihu Thomson of the General Electric Co. has learned how to fuse quartz into great discs that will not crack, nor warp with heat...