Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like any lively, ambitious cross-section of young Americans, TIME'S office boys & girls (average age: 20 years) burn plenty of extracurricular midnight oil. Some go to night school and college; a few work for their M.A. or Ph.D. degrees; office girls take our courses in typing, shorthand, etc. The results are varied and interesting. Not long ago one of our OBs left to become an instructor at Amherst College, another went to South America to be a professional wrestler, an OG blossomed into a Conover model, and an OB who had departed to become a monk returned because...
...neither Mr. Truman nor any other regular Democrat was anxious to give U.S. voters this judicial opportunity. Mr. Truman would be politicking for his life from now on. So would colleagues like Senator Alben Barkley, who was in a Cincinnati hotel room last week (see cut), getting ready to cross the river and beat his native Kentucky bushes for his fellow Democrat, Kentucky senatorial candidate John Y. Brown (see Political Notes). Far & wide, Democrats and Republicans were at the work they know best: politics...
...Form of 1896 when the boy has an I.Q. of 98. . . . We are none of us content to have so large a portion of our student body there simply because of. . . the paternal pocketbook. . . . We all want to open our doors wider to talent, [to] a more genuine cross-section of the entire American community...
...sixth, or Varsity class, Pratt and Mark Tuttle, former captain of track and cross country teams, but now a graduate student, took the lead and stuck close together until well past the half-way mark at which time Pratt gained a slight lead and finally beat Tuttle by 8 seconds...
Selections for the ten-man Varsity will be based on the remaining ten best times without regard to placing in yesterday's race. Probable lineup for the Tufts-Holy Cross-MIT engagement will be: William O'Connor, T. H. Walnut, Frank Gurley, Peter Morgan, John Cogan, Harold May, Raymond Brown, Norman Murch, and Peter Ways...