Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Major General Innis Palmer ("Bull") Swift, 71, oldtime Army cavalryman who during World War II trained and led the crack ist Cavalry Division in the Southwest Pacific (New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands), later commanded the Sixth Army's I Corps in the liberation of the Philippines; of a heart ailment; in San Antonio...
Convicts at the Norfolk State Prison Colony last night bested a crack College debate team for their sixth win in nine meetings with Harvard...
Former owners of United Steel got first crack at the shares, and even though the company has been modernized and expanded nearly 100% while in government hands, they can exchange, on a value-for-value basis, the government shares given them when the company was nationalized. The company, capitalized at ?16 million when nationalized, is capitalized at ?30 million ($84 million) in the stock sale. About one-third of its ownership is represented by this issue, 10,194,-ooo shares priced at 25 shillings...
...freshman does have a date in Princeton, it is hedged with more restrictions. The woman must leave his room by seven. After that hour, no place to entertain a woman in Princeton is open to non-club lower classmen. For the past two years there has been a severe crack-down on drinking by minors, so the local night spots are closed...
...result of this crack-down, tippling is a major project requiring planning and native cunning. Those with elderly friends or relatives, of course, have no trouble. The rest must soon form connections among the senior class or be without the minimum requirement for home entertainment...