Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Devil's Gate Dam was turned aside with sandbags. Sixty miles north of the city a sudden landslide crashed on and nearly buried a bus whose 26 passengers amazingly escaped injury. At Glendale, floodwaters and mud wrecked a $1,000,000 Government flood control project. Meanwhile, the Red Cross took charge of relief work. At the flood's height 10,000 refugees were being fed & sheltered in or near the city. Focus of operations was the San Bernardino Auditorium which served as an improvised shelter...
Their appearance of uniformity is heightened by clean-shaven faces and weekly hair-cuts-the apparent plurality of blondes is only a result of this. Actually they represent a cross-section of our country religiously (one-fourth are Catholic), racially and financially. The total disregard that the cadets show for any such differences is an indication of their attitude...
...gouty, 78-year-old chief was found at Pirates' Cove sitting cross-legged and barefooted in his striped finery, placidly smoking a pipe. He did not deny the story. Mindful of the Seminole law that the friends of a killer must bring him gifts within three days or be forever branded as his enemies, police searched, discovered that John Osceola had just received some $50 in gifts. Then they arrested...
...costing an estimated $10,000,000. Launching is scheduled for July. Nearly 3,000 tons bigger than her famed predecessor of the same name-scrapped two years ago-the new ten-deck Mauretania is 750 ft. long and, with a speed of 22 knots from her steam turbines, will cross the Atlantic in six days. Carrying 1,250 passengers and with air-conditioned public rooms, she is specifically designed for competition with such U. S. ships as the Washington and Manhattan. Because of an elaborate gymnasium she will be publicized in England as the "fitness ship." To keep the name...
With four oblique views besides the straight down one, the camera takes exposures in the form of a Maltese cross. The wing parts are to be set up with centers directly on a plotted position, and after orientation has been made from ground stations, roads, rivers, railroad tracks, etc., can be plotted directly with great accuracy...