Word: criss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down resulted. Crickard failed to gain around Yale's right end. He was nailed again for no gain. On the third down. Wood kicked, Yale taking the ball on her own 33-yard line. Crowley gained three yards through Harvard line. Booth was thrown for a loss on attempted criss-cross. On the third down, Parker kicked to the Harvard end zone. Harvard forces took possession of the ball on their own 20-yard line. Time out for Yale...
...fumble by the Harvard halfback on the kickoff recovered by Middlesex, led to the first Middlesex touchdown within 40 seconds of play. From then on, during the first quarter, the Middlesex team made the most of their smooth running criss-cross plays, and Jackson, playing at fullback tallied another touchdown. In the second quarter one of the many lateral passes which the schoolboys had perfected was received by Jackson, and he tore loose from several would-be tacklers and ran down the field for another touchdown...
...fundamental tones and overtones of the strings and transmit them to a loudspeaker. Encased in a box of standard shape but small size (4 ft. 7 in. long-a concert grand piano is 9 ft. long), the strings are stretched in radiating groups of five instead of the usual criss-cross pattern. Fewer strings for each note are needed: high notes on the "Claviphone" require two. while on a standard piano three are necessary for the proper volume. To each group of five strings is attached a microphone; to each microphone a condenser which regulates the tone. Hammers are smaller...
...along its course, was reported again near King Lake, 40 mi. north of Melbourne, was not again heard from. As did Lindbergh when the T. A. T. plane City of San Francisco vanished in New Mexico in 1929, Commander Kingsford-Smith flew to the search. Day after day planes criss-crossed the wilderness north of Melbourne. In such territory survivors might live for many days without reaching means of communication. Last week hope for plane and occupants was abandoned...
...Congressional election was a serious reversal for President Hoover and his Administration. Last month he personally visited three States (Massachusetts, Ohio, North Carolina). In each of them the election tide ran against him. Directly or indirectly he and his actions, or lack of action, were implicit issues under the criss-cross veneer of local questions. Voters struck...