Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play golf as every able man sensibly expects to. Last week, the handicap figures of Great Britain were issued. Three golfers were listed at scratch-Roger Wethered, Sir Ernest Holderness, Cyril J. H. Tolley. The first is lean, composed, frosty. His wrists are steel springs ; his swing is the crack of a quirt. The second, gloomy, nervous, plays with the air of a martyr being tortured for his faith, has twice won the amateur championship. The immense shoulders, the full-moon face, the stocky legs of the third*, haunt the dreams of the many U. S. golfers who have seen...
...college for men and women who expect to enter business when they graduate, the Antioch idea offers a valuable preparation. For six years the undergraduate takes alternate bites, first from the cake of cultural education, then from the crack of business, until his meal has made him, in Bacon's phrase, is a full man." Antioch thus combines scholasticism with worldly experience, and although, because of its dual system, it seldom produces specialists in either field, it does provide a much-needed kind of education. But the claim of Dr. Potter that Antioch furnishes", an education which is religion...
...camp. He worked with the night shift and part of his job was to keep the boiler simmering. The boiler had a rounded clean-out door; and when John heaped up a hot fire, this door would go Crick! outward, convex like a bubble. When the fire cooled down, Crack! would go the boiler door, back inward, concave like a saucer...
Within the Spencer Thermostat, there will be a little disc of flexible metal. When an iron or percolator gets too hot, crick! will go the disc, convex like a bubble, and cut off the current. When the iron cools, crack! concave like a saucer, and the current will go on again. Two metals in the disc contract and expand with the temperature, but unequally, causing the disc to warp, crick . . . crack...
...Team A of the first baseball squad swamped Team B by a 9 to 2 score in a full nine inning practice game on Saturday afternoon. The two outfits represented what will probably be a final division with the exception of pitchers and the fact that Willard Howard '23, crack shortstop, was not in the line-up of the first nine...