Word: crosse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contra, the Royalists are championed by Minister of Communications Costanzo Ciano, who cried recently at Milan: "All Fascists should wear two emblems close to their hearts: the cross of the {reigning} House of Savoy, and the fascio...
...Theorists have suggested that there was mandrake, not vinegar, on the sponge offered to Christ on the Cross...
...accomplished approximately for many years by the Harvard Observatery with its auxiliary station at Arequipa, Peru."MILKY WAY The cut of the galaxy reproduced above was made from a photograph taken at the Harvard Observatory at Arequipa, Peru. It shows the southern Milky Way with the Southern Cross and the Coal Sack in the middle. The Observatory is to be moved in the near future to Bloemfontein, South Africa, where it has been found climatic conditions are better for astronomical observation...
...possible of the actual work. Compare it with other sports, and the physical effort is surprising. Contrast a round of golf in foot-pounds of work, or a set of tennis in the lung power required with climbing a mountain under a forty-pound pack; compare chopping one big cross-log with the strokes of nine holes: and you will see why a seasoned tramper and axeman will "kill" a college athlete at this game...
...once tramped a long trail, then in good condition, with the best of companions, but was impressed with little about the trail except its length. Years later when the storms had again wreeked it, I twice worked through it with axe and cross cut and my trail crew. The first year we broke the cross-cut at the worst place and time, and two of us traveled twenty miles in storm to replace it. Next year in a grueling three days five of us took out over four hundred cross-logs. I really know that trail now and love...