Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wallace looked like he might be going to beats mighty Holy Cross as he moved into the fifth inning with a one run lead, but in that frame things blew apart. Bob Batten started things off with a long single to right field, moving to third on Bill Postman's best to left. Then came the big blow. With Don Swegan pulled out of position at short to cover second, Charlie Stephenson pushed a neat hit through the place vacated by the shortstop; Batten and Pohlman raced around to score before left fielder Allen could come up with the ball...
Harvard beat Yale and Brown on Soldiers Field Saturday, according to the if-men, when Coach Floyd. Stale's boys yielded only five runs to a strong Holy Cross nine and scored one themselves. Tivnan, hurler for the Crusaders, showed plenty of stuff, allowing only three scratch in field hits and whiffing four on strikes. The Holy Cross picket line had to make only three put-outs, testifying to Tivana's superior talent, and the infield handled the other outs...
...their slice of Berlin was precisely determined.) Local Russian commanding officers paid courtesy calls on their Allied opposites. Britain's Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, in a ceremony attended by 100 stately Grenadier Guardsmen went to the Brandenburger Tor, there awarded Marshal Zhukov the "Honory Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath...
Double Selling. During World War I, Philips stayed on its neutral feet. In 1919, it began its characteristic way of doing business. The first was an exclusive cross-licensing of light-bulb patents with General Electric. Then followed a truce with the German lamp trust, Osram, and the formation, in 1924, of the giant Phoebus cartel, to control the sale of lamp bulbs throughout the world. This included companies in Britain, France, Germany and Japan, and American-owned foreign companies. Phoebus "stabilized" prices at a high level, roughly four times higher than...
...released from prison, where he went for slashing off his wife's ear. (For one thing, she had let dirt fall on a painting he had finished and left to dry.) As penance, the artist is going to paint a religious picture. He binds a pupil to the cross, but the expression the master wants is not quite right until he thrusts a lance through the model's body. Santiago's Christ of the Agony is offered in evidence at his trial for murder, and the judges decide that the painting outweighs the crime...