Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presuming, however, that neither compulsory swimming nor corrective exercise is necessary, and for 95 per cent of the Freshmen they aren't, there are a host of other sports. Leading the list in publicity, if not in popularity, is football. After that comes cross country, soccer, singles sculling, tennis, swimming, squash, crew, with fall track, fall baseball, and impromptu touch football filling in the remaining spots for autumn recreation...
...track and cross country head coach Jaakko Mikkola and his assistant Ed Neufeld will be on hand to develop the fast men in the Freshman class, Jaakko's story, and he's Jaakko to everyone who comes into contact with him just once, is one of the most inspiring of the Harvard seene. A Finnish weight athletic in the Olympics, he came to this country where he first worked in a Lowell mill. From there he finally rose to become an assistant trainer at Harvard. Under Eddie Farrell he became assistant track coach in charge of the weight throwers...
...pilgrim. In town after town on the way, plagues miraculously disappeared upon his advent. But in Piacenza he fell ill himself, was expelled to a forest where he would have died save for the devoted ministrations of a dog. Roch died in his 30s, was identified by a red cross which, according to tradition, had been on his breast at birth. Roman Catholics came to believe God had given Roch the power of healing the plague-stricken, and he was canonized even before the city of Constance was delivered from cholera in 1414 by prayers for his intercession. Last week...
...wild poetic fantasy. Reading in part like a travel book, it is at the same time peopled with characters who are all amateur philosophers as well as men of action, who expound their beliefs, analyze themselves and the contemporary world in ringing phrases as they commit murder, double-cross each other, go down racked with disease, vice, unspeakable spiritual torment. Readers may question the allegorical significance of Author Prokosch's tale, may feel that his situations are too farfetched to be credible. But they are likely to admit that his people are real human beings, that his mountains...
...enough to make Joslyn the biggest independent U. S. telephone pole supplier.* From Idaho it gets trimmed poles of western red cedar, 25 to 35 ft. tall, creosotes them at its Chicago plant and sells them for $5 to $7. The company also manufactures a complete line of cross-arms, insulators, brackets, pins and other power line equipment which happens to be very much in demand by public utilities, now loosening up after years of pinching on maintenance. So last week Joslyn reported something notable: on sales almost doubled since 1936, six months earnings amounted to $573,025, an increase...