Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kuesters have a small flock of chickens which are part of Mrs. Kuester's job. The Dale Kuesters are raising several hundred chicks (an Australorp-Leghorn cross). Dale's wife, Ilene, a pretty, lively farm girl, who is as up-to-the-minute as if she had just stepped off Michigan Avenue, "has a hand with chickens," often has a box of underprivileged "peeps" warming over the register in her parlor...
...nine dropped its second straight game of the season to Connecticut, Saturday, by a score of 8 to 7 in 10 innings. It was an uphill battle all the way for the losers, who managed to tie the game in the seventh inning only to see the winning marker cross the plate on an error in overtime...
...Anglo-American councils, Ingersoll believes, the British played a particular game. First they tried to "win over each new American officer" by "being charming." If this did not work, they would "manufacture" evidence in order to have the officer removed. When plans for Operation Overlord (the cross-Channel invasion) were drafted in 1943, the British, who had helped to draw them up, tried to stall-for "the British always mix political with military motives." When Operation Overlord was finally forced down their throats, Eisenhower was given the big job, but "of course [he] had nothing whatever to do with leading...
...find a world figure occupied with what might seem to be the relatively prosaic duties of running Harvard University. But the drama of the local situation must not be minimized because of the smaller stage. Though there are many extenuating circumstances, Harvard finds itself in 1946 at the same cross-roads that provided an opportunity for a new President to strike out in a new direction in 1933. Thirteen years ago it was felt that Conant's ideas of "social mobility," implemented by the National Scholarships, would give the University a greater cross-section of the nation's promising young...
...course the current Miss America is a New York co-ed. And some of our best friends are Radcliffe girls. Wellesley girls return from vacation today; not enough of them were around last night to make up a scientific cross-section, but one pretty senior said something about a "Rose by any other name" and asked a little archly, "Do you think I'm so bad?" She wasn't. In fact, she was just like mother used to make, only more...