Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...testified to the Congressmen earnestly; begged them not to limit WPA construction projects to $25,000, not to kill the Theatre Project, not to believe that the Workers Alliance could dictate to him, not to cut his administrative cost allowance below 5%. He invited the committee to cross-question him, but when he finished, he got the silent treatment. Mr. Woodrum just said, "Thank you, Colonel, for your appearance," and sent the committee's bill to the printer...
...French writer André Gide once sourly said: "It is impossible to imagine a Frenchman reaching middle age without getting syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor...
...only significance that should be attached to the combination comic opera and hurricane at Ithaca is that it provides a good taking point on which to build up the chances of an unproved Eli eight. Only Fred Cross of the starting Blue osarsmen has ever been in a varsity four-mile race, while four Crimson sweepswingers rowed against Yale last year...
...Many plants are cross-fertilized, but by wind-borne or insect-borne pollen-the equivalent of sperm in men and animals...
...universities, President Conant said, "the traditional wisdom of the past meets the flood tides of the moment. From their cross-currents flow new ideas, a few of which may live to enrich a later generation." Since the work of scholars can only be judged by their "long-run significance," he remarked that "they may be permitted to interpose at times a caveat to all who would regard the imperious demands of the present as sure guides for the future...