Word: craning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pocket billiards (vulgarly called "pool"), pale, dark-haired Ralph Greenleaf ranks about tops, has been champion most of the time for 15 years. Last week in Philadelphia Billiardist Greenleaf and lantern-jawed Billiardist Irving Crane each had eight victories and three defeats after a three weeks' tournament among twelve top-ranking players. In the eleventh inning of the playoff, Crane, having scratched five times, found himself with a total of minus one to Greenleaf's 49. Then Billiardist Greenleaf strode to the table and started sinking balls so fast that one had scarcely thudded into a pocket before...
...Crane Brinton '19, associate professor of History, will speak tonight at 7:30 o'clock on "Thermidor in Russia" over station WAAB and on the Colonial Network in the first of the Fall series of radio programs being sponsored by The Harvard Guardian, first college magazine of the Social Sciences...
Over this room was the "spring house loft" and in it was a big fireplace where hung the iron "crane" with its "pot hooks." On that crane hung the huge copper kettle in which the apple butter was made...
HAROLD K. CRANE...
...Ichabod Crane or a family ghost...