Search Details

Word: cross (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Chief Boston's eleven took advantage of the mild gale at its back to cross the Brown goal once in each of the first and third periods--first on a 31-yard pass from Miklos to pierce Leavitt, then on a short Miklos pitch to Jim Rossiter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booters Load for Bear at Noontime; Jayvee Eleven Shades Brown, 14-13 | 11/15/1947 | See Source »

Here's how it goes: Harvard beat Holy Cross by seven points; Holy Cross tied Dartmouth; Dartmouth outscored Brown by three; and the Bruins beat Yale by six points, the Elis losing in turn to Wisconsin by a nine-point margin. Wisconsin won over Iowa by 32 points, and, after adding all these scores together, Sly figures Harvard to be 39 points in front of Iowa by a mere 21, the Crimson obviously is eighteen points better than Leahy's Fighting Irish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Astounding New Grid Ratings Rank Crimson Nation's Best | 11/12/1947 | See Source »

Back into Uniform. Siqueiros next turned up in Los Angeles, where he painted a mural showing a Mexican peon bound to a cross surmounted by an American eagle. He was promptly deported. Then the Spanish civil war broke out, and Siqueiros got back into uniform with something like relief. Fighting still came naturally; he commanded a motorized brigade in the battles of Caballon, Guadalupe and La Granja, and rose to be a division commander just before the end. Back home, he was welcomed at first, then thrown in jail for eight months on suspicion of taking part in the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paint & Pistols | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...recognizable pictures were, if anything, harder to interpret. Siqueiros had painted his old friend Orozco sitting cross-legged in the heart of an electrical storm. "After all," he explained, "you can't take a man like Orozco, put him in a chair and paint a likeness. You have to paint him as he is." A plucked rooster, obscenely huge, lying dead and surrounded by columns of a Lilliputian army, symbolized the Death and Funeral of Cain. Our Image, a forceful study of a giant with its hands outstretched, sported a brachycephalic boulder for a head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paint & Pistols | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Coach Mikkola was breathing easier yesterday. his cross country team had closed out a most embarrassing season Saturday by finishing eighth in the nonagonals and Jaakko could now look forward to the winter track campaign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Harriers End Season with Eighth In Nonagonals; Jaakko Turns to Winter Track | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Previous | 174 | 175 | 176 | 177 | 178 | 179 | 180 | 181 | 182 | 183 | 184 | 185 | 186 | 187 | 188 | 189 | 190 | 191 | 192 | 193 | 194 | Next