Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...square, gable-roofed chapel is topped by a cross and a steeple, which will eventually contain a bronze bell. Inside is an altar surmounted by a reversible cross (plain on one side, a crucifix on the other) and a picture of Christ. Flanking the picture are plaques bearing, respectively, a Star of David and a lotus leaf to symbolize Buddhism. The chapel's congregation contains at least one representative of Protestantism. Catholicism, Judaism and Buddhism, and each will take turns giving Sunday sermons on his faith. The group at first regretted that they had no Moslem, but then decided...
...virtue of their fine win over Holy Cross, the Eagles won the distinction of being the top college team in the Boston area, having racked up a 12-4 record. Included in the roster of their victims are such outstanding quintets as the University of Connecticut, Providence college, and Syracuse...
American Red Cross President Alfred M. Gruenther, a four-star Army general at his retirement in 1956 after 38 years of commissioned service, smiled a thin smile in Omaha when reminded of the familiar G.I. gripe that officers have better luck than ordinary soldiers in dating Red Cross lasses on military duty overseas. Said Realist Gruenther, tersely: "They did, they do and they will...
Caught in his shorts by a Swedish photographer, portly Jazzman Louis Armstrong, his anger largely mock, responded with a Marquess of Queensberry pose most likely to invite a snappy right cross. Later, somewhat more warmly garbed, Satchmo grabbed horn and handkerchief, strutted from his dressing room to wow 3,000 cats in frosty (45° below zero), far-off Umea (pop. 17,000) with a rafter-ringing set of fine old stomping tunes...
...have no notion at all that the Pope has any intention of wooing Protestants," Cross said. "He is wooing the schismatic Roman Catholic churches...