Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emma and Kathleen were big, blowy and as like as two sisters, but there was nothing homey or lovable about either of them. Christened by Army weathermen and by the Red Cross, Kathleen was a typhoon* which last week rolled over Japan's main island of Honshu, leaving hundreds dead or homeless, and Emma was a hurricane which took two ferocious licks...
...Cross nurse in World War I, Elmira Bears (rhymes with cheers) put in months at nightmarish service in France. After the Armistice, she stayed on for seven months as chief nurse for Herbert Hoover's relief commission to Belgium. Back in the U.S., she continued her career until 1925, when she married Homer Wickenden, a social-welfare official...
When World War II began, her memories sent her back into action. In May 1941, Mrs. Wickenden left her home and two daughters in Bronxville, N.Y., to set up the Red Cross Nurse's Aide program in Washington. Five months later, back in New York as executive secretary of the National Nursing Council for War Service, she was working harder and longer than ever before in her life. She had a major share in organizing the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, recruiting 179,000 student nurses and mobilizing more than 76,000 professionals for the Army & Navy-in short, assuring...
That done, the Met and the Modern got down to the serious business of swapping some of their incongruities. First to cross the border was to be Daumier's Laundress. It was now 86 years old, and an obvious "classic"; the Modern would turn it over to the Met. In exchange the Met would deliver Maillol's bronze Chained Action and Picasso's 1906 Portrait of Gertrude Stein, which Gertrude had hopefully willed to the Met (TIME...
Application deadline for priority tickets to the Dartmouth and Holy Cross football games is 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, Frank O. Lunden, H.A.A. ticket manager, announced yesterday...