Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gave all of the men who played a part in halting the Cadel assault Saturday (with the exception of George Downing and Hank Vander Eb) a well earned rest yesterday afternoon. No read injuries were reported after the team's first major win, although Club Peabody got a hard crack on his side and Joe Gardella needs a good rest from gridiron warfare...
...haven't been bombed by any Germans yet, but are waging relentless warfare against Air Raid Wardens, who come round at all hours of the night banging on the door and shouting that they can see a crack of light through one of our windows. The dog has gallantly bitten two of them, but they have retaliated by reporting him to the police. We are thinking of resorting to stink bombs! We have five people living with us, and are getting our family life organized on a communist basis. Daddy hates every minute of it, but mother has risen...
...peasants got their land, a prosperous and not too honest business class arose, new schools began to turn out young white-collar workers and these beat a path to get on the bureaucratic payroll of a vast collection of big and little political bosses. Then world depression began to crack down on easy money and easy virtue-then came Hitler...
...This crack appeared in the bank's Letter, whose monthly summaries of business trends bring statistical kudos to a young Economist-Vice President, 45-year-old George Bassett Roberts, tall, owlish professorial son of the bank's economist-emeritus, 82-yeaR-old George Evan Roberts. In the same Letter last week Economist Roberts also published the nine-month earnings figures of his selected 320 corporations-a far better gauge than last quarter reports of how much real prosperity, ex-war-boom, U. S. business has achieved. By industrial groups these nine month earnings showed...
...back to the wall, but if the Sophomore-studded Crimson eleven can carry on from where it left off in Palmer Stadium last Saturday, chances of victory improve. The Harlowmen are prepared to take to the air themselves and toss the ball around if they are unable to crack the Cadet forward wall...