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Word: crosses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heavy fog lay on London, and from Lewisham to Hammersmith, scarcely a car moved. Buses inched along the streets and trains moved cautiously along their rights of way. The 5:18 from Charing Cross to Kent that evening ground to a stop just past St. John's station to wait its turn at Park's Bridge Junction, which Londoners call the "busiest strip of railway line in the world." The electric train's ten coaches were pack-jammed, with more than 1,000 passengers caught up in the confusion of the heaviest pea-souper in two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Death in the Fog | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...distance events, the picture is somewhat brighter. In Reider, sophomore Ed Martin, and cross country captainelect Dyke Benjamin, McCurdy has a strong, smooth-riding trio who can be counted on to score high against any opponent. Moreover, junior Willie Thompson rates only slightly behind these three...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: McCurdy Says Harriers Face 'Challenge' | 12/13/1957 | See Source »

...Take me, for example. I wish I had a cross, just one cross, to bear. I was a little boy when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and when it was done and peace declared, I marched down Main Street banging on a pan with a tablespoon. I was taught in tickertape parades...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Vegetable Generation | 12/12/1957 | See Source »

...petitioner, Mrs. George William Cottrell, appeared before the City Council yesterday to seek support for her scheme, which includes a provision that no road should cross the 36-acre area without a special act of Legislature...

Author: By Blaise G. A. pasztory, | Title: City Council Refuses to Endorse Proposed Sanctuary on Charles | 12/10/1957 | See Source »

Councilor Joseph DeGuglielmo '29 also opposed the proposal on the grounds that a provision barring road construction from the area might mean "economic death" for the metropolitan area. He argued that if the proposed super-high-way had to cross this section, the bill could delay road building for a year...

Author: By Blaise G. A. pasztory, | Title: City Council Refuses to Endorse Proposed Sanctuary on Charles | 12/10/1957 | See Source »

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