Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University suffered a heavy loss yesterday in the sudden death of Samuel Hazzard Cross '12, professor and chairman of the committee of Slavic Languages and Literature, who has long been recognized as one of the country's leading experts on Russia and general Slavonic linguistic studies...
Stricken during the day, Professor Cross was taken to the Cambridge City Hospital where he died at 4 o'clock of a heart attack. He had been seen at breakfast and on the street during the day, but had failed to attend one of his morning classes. He was 55 years...
Nary a squawk has come from Worcester, but it is no secret that Holy Cross is steaming over the case of George Connor, its 225-lb. All-America tackle, who decided to attend Notre Dame this year. Leahy has plucked two other red-ripe plums: Frank Kosikowski, ex-Marquette end, who starred last year on the champion Fleet City (Calif.) Navy team; and pugnacious Center George Strohmeyer, ex-Texas A. & M. and Iowa Pre-Flight...
Formula, Discipline, Showmanship. Sometimes the Holy Cross fathers who run Notre Dame wonder if the tail isn't wagging the dog-and hasten to insist that there is a university connected with the football team. It has 4,500 students, a good chemistry department (where a formula for synthetic rubber was discovered), one of the best libraries on Irish culture and history in the U.S., and some of the strictest discipline anywhere outside West Point and Annapolis...
Lightning on a Lake. Webb & Knapp had not given promise of such a mickle feat in its earlier days. Operated for years by Ivy League sprouts (Groton's and Harvard's Elliot Cross, St. Paul's and Yale's John Hurst Purnell Gould, St. Mark's Henry Sears), the 24-year-old business was strong in contacts, weak on aggressiveness, barely managed to break even on servicing its exclusive clientele...