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Word: crosses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word, Ricardo, Constantino and Manuel went to work. They seized fishing nets bordered with cork buoys and tied them securely around their father. A moment later a huge wave broke over them. On shore, the praying watchers-gave a cry, and the village priest made a sign of the Cross. Neither the Flower nor her three crewmen were seen again, but soon afterward a coast-guard cutter, steaming belatedly from Santander, spied a white head bobbing in the water. It was Candido, battered but still alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: The Flower of Spring | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...shifted its ground, told Communist cadres to tone down "socialist education" and put production before all else. Result: production no better than 1952. The Chinese Nationalists on Formosa count the peasants' discontent among their greatest propaganda assets, are trying to nourish it with leaflets dropped from planes which cross to the mainland almost nightly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tigers Borrowing Pigs | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...This year's team," freshman coach Floyd Wilson said yesterday, "faced a tougher schedule than any we've played in many years." The record proves his point. Three of the Yardling victims, Dartmouth, Boston College, and Tufts, defeated perennially strong Holy Cross. Opponent Yale boasted a win over Princeton and a winning season, while Brown, never a basketball powerhouse, had a well above average year. The Bruins gave the freshmen their biggest scare of the season by carrying them into overtime before accumbing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/11/1954 | See Source »

...authority on cross-cultural studies in personality, Miss Du Bois is known especially for her studies of California Indians and of Indonesian and South Asian peoples. She is the author of two books in her field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Du Bois Will Succeed Cam In Women's Professorship | 3/10/1954 | See Source »

Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, has said that he was opposed to introducing Blue Cross, though he supports the proposed central medical building. Bock thought Harvard could provide better and cheaper service than an outside plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Compulsory Blue Cross Endorsed by Committee | 3/10/1954 | See Source »

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