Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Highlight of the meet was the unusual team strength of MIT. Even with Tufts cinching the one and three spot and Holy Cross taking number two, they managed to win handily by grouping the next six men who crossed the finish line all within 40 yards of each other...
Then in 17 minutes of the third quarter the Tigers went into the lead when Bill Gates, their outside left, banged in a cross-field pass from a position about three yards to left of the goal mouth...
...Pittsburgh jerked along, still harassed by the strike of 3,500 employes of the Duquesne Light Co. (TIME, Oct. 7). There was no violence. Pittsburgh just suffered, got along with barely adequate power, depended on autos for transportation; A.F.L. trolley and bus drivers still refused to cross the Duquesne workers' picket lines. Some 100,000 people were thrown out of work. Only hope for a settlement on the 13th day of the strike: Government seizure of Duquesne Light...
...minutes later they knew that the plane would never cross the ocean. On a 1,600-foot hill, seven miles away, a fire billowed up silently and burned there as brilliantly as a signal flare...
This week, on the second anniversary of Wendell Willkie's death, workmen are landscaping the large lot in Rushville's wooded East Hill Cemetery. In the lot's center, a 15-foot granite cross rises over a tiny headstone; a pale pink granite bench faces an open, granite book. The stones, sculptured by Malvina Hoffman, are now wrapped in canvas. But when the wrappings come off, visitors may sit on the bench and ponder the book's message...