Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once, at a meeting of political commissars, Lenin passed a note to Dzerzhinsky "How many vicious counter-revolutionaries are there in our prisons?" Dzeizhinsky's scribbled reply was: "Abou: fifteen hundred." Lenin nodded, made a cross on the note, and returned it to Dzerzhinsky. That night, on Dzerzhinsky's order, all 1,500 were shot. It turned out to be a mistake. As Lenin's secretary explained later: "Vladimir Ilyich usually puts a cross on a memorandum to indicate he has noted the contents...
Last August the Government charged Technicolor and Eastman Kodak Co., which the Government charges has cross-licensing agreements with Technicolor, with conspiracy to monopolize the industry. But Dr. Kalmus does not profess to be worried about the suit. He insists that his color processes are well known and no secret. Said he: "The only secret knowledge we have is know-how and you can't break up know-how by court order...
...announcement was made at the annual dinner of the Club of which Professor Cross was an active member before his death...
...Newton 15 Yale Jayvees at New Haven Freshmen April 10 Harvard Jayvees 12 Rindge Tech 13 New Prep 15 Boston University 16 Milton Academy at Milton 20 Brown at Providence 22 Governor Dummer at S. Byfield 24 Exeter at Exeter 27 Boston Univ. at Nickerson Field 29 Holy Cross May 1 Andover at Andover 4 Dartmouth 6 Wentworth Institute 8 Worcester Academy 11 Northeastern 15 Yale at New Haven
...white-robed figure scrambled selfconsciously to the courthouse lawn with a pesthole digger. Four more, grunting quite humanly, lugged up a big kerosene-drenched cross. One touched a match to it. As the flames shot up, a green-robed man-Atlanta Physician Samuel Green, Georgia's Grand Dragon-stepped into the light...