Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line's end in the city of New York, the 266 boxcars of the "Friendship Train were unloaded last week. With the contributions of New York, the cross-country haul of food donated for Europe's hungry added up to more than 12,120 tons...
Rawhide Jim put Lew to work as a mucker in the mines at Jerome, where he started learning copper the hard way. It was a rough life. Rawhide Jim was still the stern, domineering, iron-willed parent. (He had gone to France for the Red Cross during the war, became such an ardent Francophile that when he came home, he carried his own sack of French croissants whenever he went into a restaurant.) He kept a tight rein on Lew. Peggy hated the life. When a Prescott newsman suggested that Lew run for the state legislature, both Lew and Peggy...
...Harvard's opponents, Dartmouth placed Armstrong and Schreck, Yale placed Furse and Nadhorny, and B. U., Heller. On the second team Brown placed Iacuele, Regine, and Finn; Dartmouth, Sullivan and Jenkins; Yale, Prehlik; and Holy Cross, Kissell...
...Donnell, who is 23, is two years younger than his brother Cleo, popular offensive spark of the 1942 team and captain of the 1946 eleven. Their father, also Cleo O'Donnell, was head coach for two decades and later athletic director at Holy Cross. Prior to this, he was a famous Everett High School mentor from 1912 to 1918 and coached Purdue for two seasons...
Mikkola, hopeful that the new campaign would produce a happier story than the cross country opener, predicted considerable vitality in some of the jumping and weight-throwing events, but admitted that "we may be a little weak in the distances, sprints and hurdles...