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Word: crackly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such a creature, life is only too mechanical and humdrum. It would be an overdose of ippecac to ask such a man to read nothing but political and church news. When he reads about a murder, he identifies himself with the villain or the victim, he hears the gun crack, and thus he gets his daily thrill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MURDERS OF THE RUE PAPUA | 10/1/1923 | See Source »

...clouds and fog, flew out over the ocean, snapped the eclipse at 80-mile intervals previously mapped out between Santa Barbara and San Lower California. Each plane was manned by a pilot and a photographer. Lieut. John Macready, transcontinental non-stop flyer, and George Stephens, the Army's crack photographer, ran into a heavy rainstorm and secured nothing. But aviators from the battle fleet squadrons, under command of Captain V. Marshall, secured satisfactory photographs of the eclipse, including the sun's corona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sun's Corona | 9/17/1923 | See Source »

...Critics. Practically every critic of importance has, in his time, taken a crack or so at Mr. Wright. With no apparent result except to boost Mr. Wright's sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Iron Door* | 8/20/1923 | See Source »

Fenn successively took the first four events-the quarter, one-third, half and one-mile races. Willie Fenn, Sr., was a crack amateur cyclist 15 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Like Father | 7/16/1923 | See Source »

Subsequent advices from Great Falls, Mont., where the champion is training for his fight with Gibbons, show that he shattered the jawbone of an oxlike sparring partner?one Ben Wray, seven-footer from Oklahoma?in a sparring bout. One thousand visiting Shriners paid $500 to hear the jaw crack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modest Jack | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

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