Word: crossbar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also gone with the balloon was a banner which was suspended about 50 feet below it. In fact, the only thing the pranksters did not take was the crossbar of the sign and a few feet of the extra-strong twine which anchored it about 300 feet...
...close fracas that had a partisan crowd of about 1000 roaring at the drop of a crossbar, from the opening contests right up to the last event, when Harvard's two-mile relay team of Groshong, Edelman, Withington, and Gurley broke the bulldog's back and clinched the victory...
...winning fabric was a simple crossbar pattern woven by San Francisco's Designer Dorothy Liebes. She wove her winner with cotton, mohair and rayon. In other designs, she sometimes blends silk, bamboo reeds, lucite and copper wire into her fabrics. Every summer Mrs. Liebes disconnects her phone for two months, returns to the trade in the fall with hundreds of sample designs for machine production by Goodall Fabrics. Among her present projects: designing stage curtains for prefab theaters that Henry Kaiser plans to ship abroad, working up fabrics to redecorate Matson luxury liners, for Consolidated Vultee...
...Elimination of two-tone paint, nickel-trim caps on the steering-wheel crossbar. Saving: 49½? per item...
...they paraded before the kickoff and between the halfs, displaying a well-drilled marching technique and creditable musical skill. Their performance came to its expected climax as the column approached the Crimson goal posts during its between-the-half stint and the leader flipped his baton neatly over the crossbar, then grabbed it successfully on the way down...