Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Engineers Corps, who came down here to build the Nicaraguan Canal, but got married instead, sent me a year's subscription to TIME, as a Christmas present. I thought it about the best news periodical I had ever seen, but after reading some of the crank letters you print I think I should engage some of the writers to show you how to run your magazine. The only complaint I have is misleading advertising...
Just as the Times foretold so it occurred last week. What the Times did not foresee was that just as King Edward at the head of his troops passed down Constitution Hill, a crank with a pistol threatened to end His Majesty's personal liberty...
Both Gar Wood Industries and Gar Wood's expensive motorboat hobby date from 1911 when Gar Wood, then an automobile distributor in Duluth, Minn., thoughtfully observed a big truck being dumped by a hand crank. Setting to work, he invented a hydraulic hoist to dump trucks by power, founded a company to make it. His invention made him rich...
...last year is that Franklin Roosevelt's opponents now hate him with profound passion. The depth of this bitterness is shown by the excesses of the Liberty League and its allies, by the vast number of wholly malicious rumors attacking the President, by the flood of crank letters which go to the White House. The actual number of these letters is not of public record but the best evidence that it has gone beyond all previous highs is the precaution, wholly unequalled in other administrations, which the Secret Service takes to protect the President on all occasions. Certainly...
Whizzing through Washington, Pa., Henry Ford spied two men vainly trying to crank one of his 1915 Model T cars, leaned out of his limousine window, yelled: "Get a horse...