Word: crosse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little island upon which whole new cities have been superimposed annually for a decade. The Chicago press, after months of extravagant paeans about Chicago's towering new hotels, newspaper cathedrals and dizzy spires for housing jewelers, oil men, furniture merchants, athletes, chicle-venders, and to support a Methodist cross, had not yet quieted down sufficiently to overhear the murmurs of reaction. But such murmurs there were, even in Chicago. Three universities had in the past year embarked upon skyscrapers of learning-at Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Chicago. Detroit was contemplating the advent of an 85-story prodigy, complete with barbershops...
...Ruth Atkins holds him to the farm. Robert's brother, Andrew, has also fallen under Ruth's spell. Incapable of bearing the constant sight of her in the arms of his brother, Andrew, a born farmer, seeks refuge in the ship that Robert has forsaken. Both men cross their natures. Both come to ruin. After futile years of wandering, Andrew finds his way back to the fields. Robert, dying of tuberculosis and despair, stumbles to the top of the hill for a last earthly vision of the horizon that had always beckoned to him. Dead, he enters...
...best blithe spirits and make of him an astonishingly tough and adept jack-tar. He is but little concerned for his bereft Mary, back in Italy, becoming passionately interested in David's account of a lovely maiden in distress in wilderness America. David's locket shows Silver Cross, twin sister of the man slain by David, to be of utmost virginal beauty. Ever the champion of such females, Shiloh sets off across the Appalachians afoot with good-hearted David, improvising odes to Nature, caroling Greek choruses, skimming the rugged terrain with strides of flamelike lightness and celerity...
...English system, an innovation in the history of the Debating Union. The seats will be divided into two sections, one for the adherents of the affirmative, and one for the supporters of the negative. During the course of the debate, members of the audience will be encouraged to cross from one side of the room to the other as the debaters influence their sympathies...
Although this is his first year of collegiate competition, Reid was the first Harvard runner to finish in the Intercollegiates this fall, coming in thirteenth, and he came in third in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet at New Haven, being the first Crimson man to cross the tape. He placed first or second in the other meets in which the team participated this fall...