Word: crosse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry H. H. Howard. The Sheriff was a Klansman. He had been shot in-the back while raiding the house of Sam Lowman, father of the three prisoners. While Howard's body lay in state Klansmen had paraded past it, two by two, in full regalia. A fiery cross was burned in the cemetery on the anniversary of his death. Meanwhile the Lowmans were tried and sentenced to death. The State Supreme Court reversed this sentence and ordered a new trial. Judge Lanham, presiding in the case, had just charged his jury for a verdict of not guilty...
Tuberculosis, dread disease, drew concentrated attention from doctors, public health workers, social hygienists and Red Cross contributors during the past fortnight. Last week the National Tuberculosis Association met in Washington, immediately after the International Union against Tuberculosis, which had met there the previous week...
...Harvard cheering stands shivered with Bostonian excitement; fine old gentlemen pushed aside their steamer rugs and rose to their feet, drawling the name of their Alma Mater. Then, amazingly, Holy Cross began to throw the ball around in sly slants, in criss-cross webs, to come from under a 14-0 handicap and win the game...
...Syracuse, one Paul Steinberg, no jaywalker, leaped adroitly, saved himself from destruction by clinging to the radiator of an automobile that would have run him down; went on his way, smiling with relief; started to cross another street, leaped again, landed on the running board of another assaulting car, his knuckles accidently crashing into the driver's jaw. "I'll have you arrested," shouted the driver. "Go ahead," grunted Mr. Steinberg, "I'm lucky I should be able to be arrested...
...Morris is a Boston broker, and the Stock Exchange code has influenced his signal system a great deal. However, his signals and the score-board to which he wigwags have both been copyrighted, and are now used by Brown, Dartmouth and Holy Cross...