Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They sank a sample shaft in Maryland, where 35 trained interviewers bearded the beardless at home, on street corners, in drugstores, in dance halls. Their 13,528 storytellers were a representative cross section of the nation's 20,000,000 youth...
...Charles Kingsford-Smith took off from Lympne, Kent, in a Lockheed-Altair, Lady Southern Cross, to break the England-Australia record. He said it would be his last flight before settling down to aviation administration. Somewhere east of Allahabad, India, he disappeared. Eighteen months later, when he was almost forgotten, a wheel and a piece of undercarriage were found on the shore of tropical Aye Island, off the Burma coast. Photographs of the wheel were sent to Lockheed Aircraft Corp., makers of the plane. Last week Lockheed definitely identified the ship it came from as the Lady Southern Cross. Rangoon...
...British Amateur is the riskiest tournament in the world because, until the final 36, all matches are at 18 holes-which means that luck rather than skill has a large part in determining the winner. For U. S. players the chief hazards always are the wind (invariably a cross one), a course studded with thick gorse and tricky sand traps, greens that require a pitch-&-run shot rather than the backspin approach most U. S. golfers play. More serious than these natural hazards last week was the luck of the draw which placed the unseeded U. S. Walker Cuppers...
...that has been needed to make radio listening a completely sedentary occupation was elimination of the necessity for struggling up out of a comfortable chair to cross the room and tune another station. The eliminator made its appearance last week when at a dealers' and distributors' Chicago convention, Philco Radio & Television Corp. engineers demonstrated their new Mystery Control unit...
...squadron of airplanes, in the form of a cross, roared over Budapest and the rippling Danube. The river, banded by bridges, the buildings and monuments on both its banks blazed with batteries of searchlights, neon lights, torches, candles. No less than 1,000,000 people thronged the Danube banks when down the river, six miles to St. Margaret Island and back, steamed a procession of ten vessels from which sounded trumpet and organ music. In the steamers were cardinals, archbishops, bishops, priests, monks, nuns and laymen of the Roman Catholic Church. One boat bore, in a golden monstrance...