Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cross officials are now considering taking action to persuade the state to alter...
...original goal for the campaign called for 200 pints, but 79 students were turned away by the Red Cross bloodmobile for being under the state-enforced 21-year-old age limit. Massachusetts law permits service men from the ages of 18 to 21 to contribute blood, but makes no provision for college students...
Machines' electronic calculating punch now does multiplication, cross-addition, cross-subtraction and division electronically for the first time in business-machine history. The show also had many other new gadgets. Among them: ¶Dictaphone has a light (20-lb.), portable, plug-in model ($350) which records 15 minutes of dictation on envelope-sized plastic belts, so light that five can be mailed in a 3? envelope. ¶SoundScriber's dictating machine ($637.69) has a wafer-thin, Vinylite plastic record which can be erased and used over again by putting it in a machine which heats and whirls...
...beds have been set up in the PBH parlor, and office desks will be revamped to accommodate blood typing equipment. Hyde added that a doctor and a staff of Red Cross nurses will attend donors at all times...
...gradual change has come over he roster of students living at College and in the Houses. Whether it was the House Plan itself, the Great Depression, or something else that inspired it, the policy of the Administration for the last decade or so has been to bring a cross section of the American Population into the unit of the wealthy and well-born that once was Harvard. The theory has been that education involves more than factual and theoretical knowledge; it includes an understanding of different people from different places and different income brackets, their backgrounds and their beliefs. However...