Word: crosses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
University Professorships are held by "men working on the frontiers of knowledge and in such a way as to cross the conventional boundaries of the specialties," Pusey explained...
...skeptics left, Price's own volumes, The Most Haunted House in England and The End of Borley Rectory, soon dispelled them. Even Sir Ernest Jelf, Senior Master of His Majesty's Supreme Court, examined Price's evidence and confessed himself "at a loss to understand what cross-examination could possibly shake...
Moving as if her leg had never been hurt, Tenley whirled through her complicated routine. Axels, splits, cross-foot spins were all combined in a daring dance. Only once did her bad ankle seem to buckle, but she recovered quickly. Judges gave her an almost perfect score...
While the Williams meeting was in progress, the World Council of Churches met in Sydney, Australia, to weigh a similar subject: Christianity's plans and strategy for Southeast Asia. In the night sky, during the meeting, big searchlights formed a luminous cross, but the council's mood was less glowing. A note almost of supplication toward Asians and of stern self-criticism were evident. Said Yale's Dean Listen Pope: "Divided and rent asunder in its own life, the church itself speaks in broken accents and sometimes seems to add to the confusion of tongues. The nations...
...bridge commission built a mile-long span in 1950, half a mile from the river it was supposed to cross. Nature refused to move the river back, and neither could the engineers without congressional funds. The dry-land bridge grew into a joke to everyone but Wall Street's Cornelius Shields & Co. Shields, a veteran dealer in such issues, and famed yachtsman (TIME, July 27, 1953), headed the underwriting syndicate that sold the 3.75% bond issue (maturing in 1980), on the understanding that in 1952, its first year in operation, the bridge would take in $155,600. As past...