Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty freshmen started the new curriculum in its first year. By last week two had flunked out, five others had quit. But the 13 survivors were excited about their novel course, their crack teachers. Said Student Bowen Weisheit: "These fellows teach differently from any teachers I ever had. I don't know how it is, but there's something they do that just makes it click...
...midst of England's "distressed areas," came 500 Promgoers. The musicians who played in the concert all gave their services free. They were: London's four leading symphonic orchestras (BBC's, the London Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the Queen's Hall), London's three crack choirs (BBC's Choral Society, the Royal Choral Society, the Philharmonic Choir), 16 of England's best concert and opera singers, Sir Henry's great & good friend, Sergei Rachmaninoff. Ralph Vaughan Williams composed a special song for the occasion called Serenade to Music. Sixty-nine-year...
...newsreel cameraman who can fake the best pictures in the trade, and a round-the-world aviatrix who wishes to hunt for her lost brother in the Amazon, is a convenient frame on which to hang a series of thrilling climaxes. These thrills, which include shots of plane crack-ups, burning ships, and devil-dancing Dukas Indians, are enough to make a good picture...
...political crack-of-the-week was credited to Franklin Roosevelt, speaking apropos the Purge of New York's Representative O'Connor (see p. 12): "Harvard lost the schedule but won the Yale game...
...Whistling and whining across Long Island Sound, the big wind hit New England with increased fury. (Harvard observatory at Blue Hill, Mass. registered gusts of 186 m. p. h.) At Bridgeport, New Haven and New London, the storm waves hurled shipping into the streets and across railroad tracks. The crack Bostonian express train had to nose a house out of its way as it crawled, half-submerged, to safety, dragging telephone poles by their fallen wires, leaving all but one car behind in a washout. A capsized naval training ship started a fire in New London that consumed an entire...