Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hockey team has increased its schedule: Holy Cross is slated for a match at the Boston Skating Club, January 14, at 7:30 o'clock, and Princeton has tentatively agreed to play at the Boston Arena on February 1 at 8:30 o'clock...
Unusually early for a Yale climax, the game was stuck into the schedule in the only spot that could be found. It follows the toughest game on the Harvard schedule Holy Cross...
Soon Sailor Slobodkin (self-described as "a fat, soft guy with glasses") found himself loading cargo, eating slop and doing soogie moogie (scrubbing paint work) with a crew as oddly assorted as flotsam & jetsam on a beach. There was a union-conscious Portuguese named Perry. "His cross eyes seemed to set the motive for all his movement-when he'd sit down, he'd cross his legs, cross his arms . . . . I never saw him standing with his legs straight...
Hard work, slick financing, fast talk, and a driving energy that permitted only parlor-car relaxation on his cross-country travels raised Chateaubriand from a law professorship at Recife to the most comprehensive press lordship south of San Simeon. He owns 28 newspapers, 16 radio stations, five magazines and a press service. The most spectacular of his promotions, a campaign for Brazil's amateur Aero Clubs, paid off when Aero Clubs' Sunday fliers started pouring into the war-activated Brazilian Air Force...
Would U.S. art-lovers get to see what is perhaps the biggest pile of art treasure ever to cross an ocean? Said the Army: "It is not contemplated ... at present...