Word: crosse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bombs (much less powerful in submarine warfare than publicity led people to believe) finally with definite knowledge that the sub is still intact the paravane is streamed. The destroyer works up to speed (about four to five times the possible speed of a submarine under water) circles the area, crosses it several times, makes a shamrock course within the circle thus covering completely the whole area while the submarine is crossing it. It does not matter what depth the submarine is running the paravane is beneath it, the wire (which has electrical wires in its centre) crossing the hull...
...dining hall in the form of a St. Andrew's cross on the present site of the Boylston Chemical Laboratory, with table d'hote service in three of the four halls, and a cafeteria-grill in the fourth, is the suggestion of A.H. Harlow Jr, '29, in the following essay, which won the third prize in the recent Crimson essay contest. Capable management, under a non-University direction, if necessary, is declared a panacea for most of the present dietetic ills...
...most efficient arrangement for a University dining hall is a building with four wings branching out from a central intersection area--a sort of St. Andrew's cross design. Variations of the plan, novel as it sounds, have been effectively adopted by several colleges. Princeton, for instance, has a pentagonal eating hall...
Father and mother are about as bad as any vaudeville team you ever saw, and but for the simple homeliness of their lines, which convulse the crowd, they could be dispensed with entirely. Mother has a cross between a Southern drawl and a nasal twang which defles geographical location. Father is as fidgety as your Aunt Emma, and twice as much of an old woman...
...breast in the manner of the transverse strap of a Sam Brown Belt. Soon by a gold safety pin there was attached to M. Franqui the highest decoration in the gift of the Belgian Crown-the Order of Leopold. Twinkling it dangled, glittered: a gold edged white enamel cross suspended from a royal crown and resting on a green laurel and oak wreath, at the centre on a black field the golden lion of Belgium, below the motto L'Union Fait La Force. . . . King Albert of the Belgians stepped back from decorating M. Franqui. All the world knows that...