Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Andover starts the game with an imposing record of seven wins and but one defeat. The schoolboys' principal power lies in an air-tight defense and their crack forward, Billhardt. Billhardt has been the high-scorer for Andover throughout the year, making an individual total of 17 points against Tufts and 13 against the Princeton 1928 outfit. HARVARD 1928 ANDOVER Slocum, r.f. l.g., Morgan Baldwin, l.f. r.g., Burns Barbee, c. c., Brockelman Oothout, r.g. l.f., Frigard Meisenbach, l.g. r.f., Billhardt
...Crack! went a revolver. Ping! went a bullet. Plop! answered the woodwork of a Hungarian train as the lead buried itself...
That the dome, weighing from 40,000 to 60,000 tons, rests upon eight piers which, though they appear imposingly massive, are in reality no more than stone pipes bolstered with rubble. The weight of the dome has made every one of them shift or crack. That the Cathedral's solidity could be amply restored by the simple method of grouting. To grout is to force behind the stone facings liquid cement which, oozing through the broken rubble, would petrify it into a rigid mass capable of sustaining any weight. That grouting would do no more good than grouching...
Gumshoe, stick, crack, crick...
...ahunting. The two had not proceeded far when they came across large indentations in the crust of the rain-sodden earth, plainly the footprints of an odd-toed ungulate mammal. Carefully, cautiously, noiselessly the tracks were followed. Several miles they went before the object of their sleuthing was sighted. Crack! spoke the Duke's rifle. With a howl of rage and pain, a rhinoceroes turned and charged at the second son of King George, York reserved his fire. Nearer and nearer the enraged animal came, its head lowered, its two white horns gleaming their deadly significance. Nearer and nearer...