Word: crooker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both coaches, Harlow and Mannie Mansfield, praised the play of Charlie Crooker's and Art Belliveau for Bates. The captain and center, Crooker was in every play, throwing back Harvard thrusts like a man with twice his 165 pounds...
...their light treatment, the authors, Earle Crooker and Lowell Brentano, have kept the production from being a mere musical biography, and by the introduction of "Live" have prevented it from becoming a mere period piece; moreover, the transition between scenes--America and France, the present and the past--is made admirably clear by a writing device known as "Telautograph Projection...
Observations with high-speed camera and photoelectric cell show that an expert golfer may swing his club head as fast as 125 m.p.h. At such velocities air resistance becomes a considerable factor. At the American Physical Society's convention in Washington last week, Physicist Sylvan Jay Crooker of Purcellville, Va. reported that air resistance may be diminished fifteenfold by scientific streamlining of the club head, the shape (except for the face of the club) conforming to airship hull contours tested in wind tunnels. Declared Dr. Crooker: "Dynamic and ballistic analyses, checked by field tests, prove the low-resistance [streamlined...
...detective had been employed by friends of Illinois' Republican Senatorial Nominee Ruth Hanna McCormick whose campaign expenditures the Committee has been scrutinizing, Senator Nye declared: "I don't see how you can assume anything else." The Committee was asked to make two other inquiries: Massachusetts. Conrad W. Crooker, counsel of the Liberal Civic League, charged that onetime Senator William Morgan Butler & friends had already spent $500.000 to "steal" the Republican senatorial nomination. Likewise Mr. Butler, good friend of Calvin Coolidge, was accused of securing endorsements of Labor by putting labor leaders on his political payroll...