Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...people who asked what was the use of newly discovered facts, Benjamin Franklin used to say, "What is the use of an infant?" The great Michael Faraday of England repeated the crack (with due credit) while lecturing on chlorine...
Feature of Stokowski's return was the first performance outside Russia of the sixth and latest symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich, at 34 the No. 1 Soviet composer. The Philadelphia Orchestra got first crack at No. 6 as it might have arranged for a ton of caviar: by negotiating with Amtorg Trading Corp., paying a fee so stiff (amount kept secret) that it had to be specially approved by the Philadelphia Orchestra directors...
...marks plus a block of stock. Diesel moved his family into a lavish apartment, then into a lavish house in Munich, began pouring his money into oil and real-estate speculations. Most of these turned out badly. Lawsuits popped. The inventor's health began to crack, but he labored on, propping his strength with bromides and antipyrin. On a visit to the U. S., he met Thomas Edison, was deeply impressed by the U. S. inventor's simple, abstemious habits. When Diesel took his leave, Edison joked: "Don't eat too much...
...Republic) is no ordinary Gene Autry western. At busy little Republic studios, the cinema's most constant source of sagebrush sagas, the conventional eclogue on the majesty of ranch life has been switched to an offensive against the pitfalls of the city by showing the studio's crack cowboy taking a lacing from the rough, tough Wildhack Boys (Barton MacLane, Joseph Sawyer, Horace MacMahon) after a few months in a Hollywood broadcasting studio have softened up the Autry biceps. It is not a pretty sight...
...service the British air offensive, and service the blockade, these two mighty weapons will crack the hard core of Nazi industrial war power...