Word: thunderclaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Princetonians know Jack Crocker, now 39, as a big, dark-haired, broad-browed man who looks like Napoleon in his youth, likes his exercise (squash and tennis), loves to argue, has a laugh like a small thunderclap, six children and a comely wife (née Mary Hallowell, sister of two famed Harvard athletes) who sometimes needs to remind him where he parked his car. An earnest student, a disciple of Humanist Paul Elmer More, Crocker is a practitioner of "muscular Christianity." In this he resembles old Dr. Peabody, who used to play games with his students...
With the exception of the Tercentenary, nothing has been watched by Harvard this season with greater interest than the performance of the football team. The thunderclap of last Saturday's defeat at the hands of an unusually skilled West Point team is viewed by the undergraduate body as a mere setback which should not cast the bar sinister across the rest of the season...
...fortnight ago the Kentucky tradition still held good in bloody Harlan County. County Attorney Elmon C. Middleton, a RePublican with apparent Laffoon affiliations, climbed into his coupe in front of his house, stepped on the starter. Instantly the machine exploded with a thunderclap went to pieces like a paper bag. Attorney Middleton died almost instantly. Experts estimated that had the other 17 sticks of dynamite under the cars hood gone off, the whole neighborhood might have been wrecked. But not one life was lost in the voting three days later...
...fortnight ago, the Kentucky tradition still held good in bloody Harlan County. County Attorney Elmon C. Middleton, a Republican with apparent Laffoon affiliations, climbed into his coupé in front of his house, stepped on the starter. Instantly the machine exploded with a thunderclap, went to pieces like a paper bag. Attorney Middleton died almost instantly. Experts estimated that, had the other 17 sticks of dynamite under the car's hood gone off, the whole neighborhood might have been wrecked. But not one life was lost in the voting three days later...
...wish to applaud with a thunderclap Richard Waller of Le Luc, France, for introducing his splendid idea of creating a family of "Friends of TIME," to guarantee TIME two new subscriptions for every one canceled by saucy letters [TIME...