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Word: crossed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Graham Taylor and John Hart took seventh and ninth, respectively, at Lebanon, New Hampshire, Sunday in the state cross country and jumping championships. This Sunday the team will enter the annual Gibson Trophy slalom race at North Conway, New Hampshire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Team Renews Winter Schedule | 2/1/1949 | See Source »

March 31, 1945. "For many it was too much altogether . . . When they saw the white Red Cross busses [which they took to mean liberation] they collapsed and died-literally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buried Alive | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...first ski competitions of the winter will be the Lebanon, New Hampshire, jumps and cross country races today and tomorrow. Because all previously scheduled events have been cancelled this winter, the Lebanon competitions are expected to attract a big field of experienced entrants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New England Has First Snowstorm; Is Skiiers Haven | 1/29/1949 | See Source »

Looking them over, bustling little James Parton got an idea. Parton, onetime Harvard cross-country runner ('34) and wartime lieutenant colonel, had been a TIME staffer since 1935, was then Los Angeles bureau chief. He figured that combining the most successful giveaways would be one way to establish a profitable citywide newspaper with ready-made readership and advertising revenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Experiment in Giveaways | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

Easy Ed Macauley, 20, the best college basketball player in sight this season, seems part giraffe and part gazelle. Deadly with his one-armed hook shots, he is even better on defense. Against Holy Cross, he held talented George Kaftan scoreless from the floor; for one period he did the same thing to Kentucky's great Alex Groza. To opponents, his nonchalance is frustrating. In the Canisius game, the enemy's pivot man tried guarding Ed too closely. Result: the Canisius star wound up on the bench in tears, out of the game on personal fouls with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stop St. Louis! | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

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