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Word: crosses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confident Crimson cross-country team, with eight straight wins to its credit, will face a strong Boston University squad this afternoon at 3:45 on the Franklin Park course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers to Meet Boston U. Today | 10/4/1955 | See Source »

This year Radio Evangelist Michaux. who calls his sect the "Gospel Spreading Association," produced five Spectaculars. At the first (Memories of the Cross), the devil was buried in a glass casket with full funeral rites. At the second (The Heart of My Lord Was Broken for Me), an electrical bleeding heart spilled crimson liquid on twelve female "penitent sinners" while the choir sang Fountain Filled with Blood. The third (Jesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: WJSV! | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

Last week, before 14,000 people. Showman Michaux brought his series to a fitting close. Shining in a white dinner jacket, he proclaimed that the traditional inscription on Jesus' cross, INRI (Latin abbreviation for Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews), was inappropriate: "We have coined a new phrase-WJSV, which means WILLINGLY JESUS SUFFERED FOR VICTORY!" Then the choir, donning red caps marked with W, J, S or V, shouted out the letters in cheering-section style, and Elder Michaux with five assistants baptized 156 excited white-robed penitents in a tank behind home plate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: WJSV! | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...Here are a few half-time scores: Columbia is ahead of Princeton, 7 to 6. Wild cheering. "Yale trails Brown . . ." The noise drowned out the score. "Dartmouth is behind Holy Cross . . ." More cheering. "Colgate 14, Cornell 0." Just fine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How an Announcer Earned His Pay | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...Holy Cross 29, Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How an Announcer Earned His Pay | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

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