Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crack varsity mile relay team, which in its last outing missed the all-time Harvard record by one second, will take on equaly strong Yale and Princeton teams in the B.A.A. meet in the Boston Gardon tomorrow night...
...Crack Relay...
Wilson is especially proud of his crack mile relay team, which placed second in the K. of C. Meet recently. He feels that they would have placed first, except for the fact that anchor man Wharton was unable to regain his stride after being knocked off balance attempting to pass Brown's anchorman, John Connor. They did, however, beat a highly regarded Yale freshman relay team...
...master died, and his company, based on no school of its own and without a guiding hand, dissolved almost as if it had never been.* For a while Balanchine wandered, picking up odd jobs in London variety shows ("16 Delightful Balanchine Girls"), staging half a dozen ballets for the crack Danish Royal Ballet, having a whirl at running his own company (called Les Ballets 1933}. But nothing quite worked out as he wanted it to, and he turned his eyes westward again. "I really wanted to go to America," he says. "I'd seen the movies. So many...
Navy's top A-bomb experts; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in New York City. A crack gunnery officer, he became chief of the Bureau of Ordnance during World War II, later led a naval bombardment group in the Pacific. In 1946, commanding Joint Task Force One (230 ships; 41,000 men; 1,000 scientists and technicians), Admiral Blandy smoothly directed the first postwar A-bomb tests at Bikini. Retiring as head of the Atlantic Fleet in 1950, he was recalled to active duty last October, when death came was busy evaluating the Navy's Reserve program...