Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Doxology at meals, but the words referred to the duty of every Chinese to save his country from decadence and obliteration. Morning and evening they sang Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, but the words were equivalent to ' Save your ammunition.' The Eleventh Division (known as the Crack Eleventh) often sang Bringing in the Sheaves, the words of which had the same meaning as the American doughboy's slang phrase, ' Get your...
...generally takes about three years to make a really good oarsman; to grind "form" into, his system so thoroughly that he will hold it under pressure of extreme exhaustion. How hard then to expect eight men to re-learn rowing in a year so thoroughly that they will not "crack", or have off days when they revert to their old rowing habits. The Freshmen have nothing to which to revert. As to the idea that it is "guts, not form" which we want, let me suggest that it is speed which we want-a thing to be obtained only...
TRODDEN GOLD-Howard Vincent O'Brien-Little, Brown ($2.00). Mr. O'Brien has an unaccountable grudge against money. On almost every page he takes a nasty crack at it. The story is of two girls, one of whom married a man who quickly became rich. The other married a chemist to whom Science was all and Mammon a despicable deity. A penetrating study of the problem of money and why not to want...
...second half started out differently. The team work of of the Freshman began to produce results in the form of a 21-15 lead, only to crack when the Academy players tied the score, and shot five baskets for an easy victory...
...superior athlete. Just because of this fact, and the fear of unjust suspicion, the University is embarrassed in giving him the aid which he was earned, and which he would quickly receive if he were not so unfortunate as to be a good football player or "crack" track...