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Democrat Joseph ("Jumping Joe") Ferguson assured the President that he would beat Robert Taft by 250,000 votes in November, and asked the President to travel Ohio "up & down and crisscross and every which way" in his behalf. Harry Truman promised to help...
...second voyage, in 1772, Cook had two ships, the Resolution and the Adventure, and he was equipped with four of the newly invented chronometers for careful charting of the South Pacific. His crisscross track of exploration covered a distance nearly equal to a journey three times around the equator. When he reached the end of his voyage in 1775, the main outlines of the map of Oceania and Antarctica had been fixed with unprecedented accuracy...
...coming had been heard amidst the clatter of traffic on Bangkok's twisted, crowded streets. Peddlers had passed it from sampan to sampan along the winding, traffic-jammed klong (canals) that made Siam's capital an eastern Venice. Strawhatted boatmen on the wider canals that crisscross the rice-rich central plains to the north had told it to farmers' wives in houses perched on stilts. Up the great rivers, the Chao Phraya, the Mekong, the Tha Chin, the Ping, the Si and the Mun, it had gone with wandering merchants thumbing barge rides. On the lips...
Every time it rained in Rio in the past few months, deep puddles spread over the streets that crisscross the Praia do Flamengo along Guanabara Bay. City engineers wondered what had happened to the huge sewers beneath the Praia. Last week they found out. A handful of Rio's hopeless poor had blocked the street drains with boards and sheet metal, moved into the sewers and set up housekeeping...
Like a mail-order catalogue, the show had a little of everything-from the sharp literalness of an Edward Hopper Civil War scene, to a tangled, crisscross abstraction by Mark Tobey. There were the sanitary surfaces of Georgia O'Keeffe, the fluid mists of John Marin, a pasteboard street scene by Stuart Davis. A few canvases with less familiar trademarks made gallery-goers look twice: Joe Jones's "Departure" from a grim and desolate wasteland; Henry Koerner's tired old couple, huddled in a cart, gazing numbly at the ruin about them; Theodore Lux Feininger...