Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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VARSITY FOOTBALL Sept. 27Western Maryland Oct. 4 B.U. Oct. 11 Virginia at Charlottesville Oct. 18 Holy Cross Oct. 25 Dartmouth Nov. 1 Rutgers Nov. 8 Princeton Nov. 15 Brown Nov. 22 Yale at New Haven JUNIOR VARSITY FOOTBALL Oct. 24 Dartmouth Oct. 31 Open Nov. 7 Princeton Nov. 14 Brown at Providence Nov. 21 Yale at New Haven FRESHMAN FOOTBALL Oct. 11 Andover at Andover Oct. 18 Dartmouth at Hanover Oct. 25 Exeter (2:00 o'clock) Nov. 1 B.U. (2:00 o'clock) Nov. 8 Open Nov. 15 Brown (2:00 o'clock) Nov. 21 Yale at New Haven
...Congressmen cross-examined Food Minister John Strachey and were a little annoyed by his air of supercilious serenity. They were more impressed by Sir Stafford Cripps, president of the Board of Trade. Cripps said that Britain was bracing itself to get along without another U.S. dime, if necessary...
Moscow, the holy and the bloody, the loved and the dreaded, last week was a historic focus of rejoicing and remembrance. Her crown of spires and belfries shone in freshly gilded splendor, and the cupolas of her innumerable churches sat m the sky like frozen clouds. The cross atop the Tower of Ivan the Great glistened m the sun, and told visitors approaching from all over Russia that they were near their goal. In the streets, the people lanced and blessed their city upon its 800th anniversary. It was as Moscow's son, Alexander Pushkin, had written "Moscow: those...
Long-Arm was succeeded by many rival princes, among them Basil the Cross-eyed, who later became Basil the Sightless and Ivan Kalita, called Moneybag, who first gave Moscow something like an ordered economy. The young town was repeatedly overrun by the Golden Horde of Tartars, one of whose reasons for coming back again & again was Moscow's women, much coveted on the world slave markets. Sultan Ahmed I is said to have asked his eldest son one day: "My Osman, wilt thou conquer Crete for me?" Whereupon Osman replied: "What have I to do with Crete? I will...
...Wells's The Land Ironclads (1903) tells of a machine resembling a cross "between a big blockhouse and a giant's dishcover" clanking over trenches on caterpillar-like feet, firing automatic weapons as it goes. Tanks were first used at the battle of the Somme...