Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening, if he has no urgent meeting, he dines at home with Isobel. Their menu: carrots or other raw vegetables, black bread, fruit. Ever since he drove for the Red Cross in France during World War I, Cripps has been bothered by intestinal trouble. In 1935 he became a vegetarian. Cripps and Isobel eat no cooked foods, except for an occasional boiled potato...
...just a moneymaker. Intellectual as well as industrialist, he founded the São Paulo School of Economics, has written 17 books, including the definitive two-volume Economic History of Brazil. Recently he was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He is president of the Brazilian Red Cross, belongs to a hatful of foreign scientific societies. In the Senate, where he is regarded as the best-dressed member, Simonsen takes his work seriously. He seldom speaks from the floor, but puts in hard licks on committees. Currently, he is so busy that he seldom gets home to his wife...
...meals, they shoveled in eggs and chops and more steak. They hadn't eaten like that since Hitler started his march through Europe. Said Commander C.R.T. Roe, the non-playing British captain: "The ham I ate for breakfast would last a month in England." They ate their way cross-country to Portland, Ore. and arrived on the playing scene as contented, and as unready for battle, as a cat with canary feathers in his mouth...
...masses," other than to "take the serious stuff and put it into mass language." But radio is gradually closing the gap anyway, he believes: "The professor is discovering Jack Benny and the ditch digger is discovering symphony at the same time. Radio gets into people's houses and cross-fertilization begins...
...multiple-college cross country meets, there is generally one team afraid of finishing last. The seven-man Crimson squad which will take off this morning from Logan Airport for the Nanagonals at Princeton finds itself in this category...