Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Runner. Strom Thurmond has been running for something all his life. At first he ran for exercise, trotting around his father's farm in Edgefield, S.C., 54 miles from Columbia. When he went to Clemson Agricultural College he ran on the college cross-country team. He was a determined student who overcame a speech impediment by reading slowly for an hour every afternoon to a patient professor. Once his classmates threw him into the swimming pool for trying to shine up too much to the faculty. After graduation he taught school and began running for political offices. He became...
...Strong Chest. Up for discussion in the U.N.'s Political Committee was the two-year-old U.S. proposal for international control and inspection of atomic energy. That was, in effect, a limitation of national sovereignty, for it provided that a worldwide agency would have the right to cross any country's frontiers and look into any country's factories. Cried Russia's Andrei Vishinsky: "Nobody will blind us and confuse us with beautiful words about the necessity of waiving part of our national sovereignty . . . The control agency would be an American agency ... an international monopolistic super...
British and Belgian army groups last week held joint maneuvers near Aachen. The theme for the exercises was: "Strong invading forces have reached the Rhine and are attempting to cross...
Harvard's harriers trailed Tufts and Holy Cross yesterday afternoon at Franklin Park, lifting the lid on their 1948 cross country schedule. In addition to a slow course, a truck the runners were following led them 170 yards out of the way and a Tufts freshman fainted just after the start of his race, which went to the Crimson Yardlings...
...Varsity contest, a four and a quarter mile test, went to Max Schafiler of Tufts, who was clocked in 23:24.8 minutes. For the Crimson, Nat Carieton was the first to cross the finish line, placing sixth. Joe Leming took eighth, John Cogan twelfth, Dick White thirteenth, and Joe Rosen fifteenth. The final score...