Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have never been in the game about which I inquire. Just suppose that a man or a set of men should successfully kidnap, say, one or two or three national figures in a certain European country, and land in another European country, or still be more successful and cross the Atlantic and land in the U. S., be arrested and incarcerated for the above deed, do you think public sentiment would be strong enough from the Chief Executive of this nation or those who are in position to use the executive power, that these said parties would not have...
...scandal was just one splash in a whirlpool of trouble which recently engulfed husky, ruddy Democrat T. Frank Hayes, who eight years ago became the biggest political frog in Waterbury. Mayor of Waterbury, he also became Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut and, though honest old Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross, onetime dean of Yale's Graduate School, was too spry ever to let him get his hand on the highest State controls, he presided over the Senate in a style which, his accusers said, was lucrative as well as lordly...
Since most radio programs use prepared scripts, radio performers need nothing so much as the ability to read aloud. But programs like General Foods Corp.'s We, the People, in which the audience participates, run into special script troubles: the program's cross section includes people with poor eyesight, some illiterates. Average for We, the People is one guest a week who cannot see well enough to read an ordinary script. Last week the docket included a man who could not see at all- blind Musician Leonard Burford. For Guest Burford the script was typed in Braille...
...lowly, cross-eyed little flatworms called planarias are highly regarded by zoologists, for they are the "lowest" animals in evolutionary rank which possess a definite head, right and left side, top and bottom, front and rear. Though it has no backbone, the flatworm is tenacious of life. If it is decapitated, the head will grow a new body, the body a new head. If the head is divided by a longitudinal cut toward the tail, each part will become a complete new head, making a two-headed monster. If part of a flatworm's head is removed and grafted...
Eliot's harriers took the cross country title, beating Leverett by one point in the meet on November 17. Jim Lightbody, Eliot star, came in first in the fast time of 10:02 for the course of 1 9-10 miles...