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Word: crackly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach RIP ENGLE (shown here with captain NORM IACUELE) will be out to crack a jinx which has so far kept him victory-less on Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Order of Finn-an Haddie, Coming Up . . . | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

Wingback Hal Moffle has carried only 18 time, but leads the Crimson in yardage gained per try. He has picked up 135 yards for an average of 7.5 a crack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gannon Leads Grid Offense Total Yardage; Noonan Next | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

...industry, which does a crack job of selling its products, often flops in trying to sell itself to the public. To see if there were a surer way to make friends as well as customers, 70 companies of the Mahoning and Shenango valleys, in northeastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania, formed a local organization called Industrial Information Institute, Inc. After rounding out its first year, I.I.I, last week had a pattern of local salesmanship that businessmen of other industrial regions could apply with profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Salesman's Salesman | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...fewer and fewer war veterans. Since the non-veteran has had less contact with large numbers of his countrymen, he is loss adaptable to the purposes of the House Plan than the veteran. For this reason the Houses, which have made a respectable start in their work, must now crack down on all the big and little faults which have so far slowed up the House Plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Seven Wonders | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Furthermore, the Dartmouth rebuttal had touched a tender spot. One of the alumni who saw it was none other than Tribune Managing Editor "Pat" Maloney (Dartmouth '13). The Trib promptly called Ottawa to ask Griffin about that "moon is green" crack. Griffin issued a blustering denial: "The Dartmouth bull about me was just a lot of goddamn lies by some scared, chickentrack Dickey jerks who can't contradict what I wrote. They were afraid the alumni will look into what's going on at Dartmouth, so they tried like hell to get me fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Moon Is Green | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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