Word: crisscrosses
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...This agreement should put an end, once and for all, to the financial intrigue which for so many years clouded trunk line affairs. Even since 1920, legitimately ambitious railroads and even designing financiers have tied up the situation by crisscross investment much to the public confusion and disadvantage. But now there will be no future sparring for position. There will be no need for corporate or private speculation...
...Basle, Switzerland, where most of the railroads of central Europe crisscross, met last week for their first official session the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements...
...Then he went to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., officially as a history professor-but little time was lost in making him a member of the football advisory board. Soon Wesleyan teams began to baffle their cumbersome rush-line opponents with crafty off-tackle plunges, with neat crisscross plays. People began to talk of a lean history professor, who did no active field coaching but who had an impressive little blackboard...
McKay kicked off to Stevens who passed the ball to Peterson, the crisscross gaining twenty-seven yards, as G. G. Browne had been drawn in by the trick. After one rush Stevens made an onside kick which Leslie fumbled and Williams recovered the ball in the centre of the field. Here Harvard held well, securing the ball on downs. Two line plunges gained but two yards and Frothingham punted outside on Williams's 45-yard line. Williams was penalized for starting before the ball and Stevens punted over O'Flaherty's head, the ball rolling toward the Harvard goal. Three...
...means as strong as was reported, for on the offensive, barring Brooke's work, they were exceedingly poor, only gaining five or six times during the entire afternoon the necessary five yards. Most of Pennsylvania's gains were made on trick plays, the chief gain being a crisscross around right...