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...said in a pathetic attempt at enthusiasm that the Åndalsnes reembarkation was carried out "without losing a single man." If it was so carried out it was technical operation that military men will admire, but that did not alter the fact that the expedition had come a shocking cropper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: 23 Days | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...James last week went into the slot-machine business, reviving memories of his father's cropper in a kindred enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: At Cocos | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...this difference in arenas that caused the Crimson to come a cropper last Saturday, and Major Sargent, coach of the pole team for the past three years, is confident that on the home floor the Harvard team will give a different account of itself. The lineup Saturday will probably pit Gay Dillingham, Winny White, and either Tommy Higginson or Jack Lewis against Alan Corey, Billy Chisholm, and Dava Wilhelm. As a question of individual supremacy between Dillingham and Corey the match should be interesting enough in itself...

Author: By John C. Robbins, | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/29/1940 | See Source »

...lower East Side, on his way to school used to lug to a sweatshop the bundles of piecework sewing his mother did at home. Later he worked in a clothing store at $5 a week, took night art classes till he got his job on the Tribune. In Cropper's phrase he "fired the Tribune" after his I. W. W. conversion, became successively a labor organizer, oiler on a freight boat, itinerant sign painter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 20 Years of Gropper | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...talkingest of them all was Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, who, having given a full explanation of how Royal Oak came its cropper (see p. 20), held a pep session on BBC. It contained easily the week's liveliest name-calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Words for War | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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