Word: crossings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the Graphic must and will be made into a high class newspaper. . . . The tone . . . will unquestionably have to be raised. I have found the people of New York City have a lot more intelligence than they are given credit for. . . . What I want to do is to cross Park Avenue with Third Avenue. I don't want to give up Third Avenue, but I want to get Park. I believe the people on both streets have much in common and one thing is a taste for decency. The canons of journalism I learned from Herbert Bayard Swope...
With the breaks coming its way and sufficient power to capitalize on them Harvard's football team defeated a rugged Holy Cross eleven Saturday by a 12 to 6 score. It was a drab struggle for the most part, and the 55,000 spectators saw nothing new in the way of a Crimson offense...
...yard line, held stubbornly, and punted out of danger, for the moment at least. Starting on the opponents' 30-yard stripe, a trio of Sophomore backs, Mays, Devens and White, carried down again, Mays finally scoring on a lateral from Devens In the final period White speared a Holy Cross pass, raced 33 yards to the Purple 3-yard line, whence Devens smashed his way over...
...closing minutes O'Connell, Purple halfback, electrified the crowd with his brilliant 83-yard run back of, Harvard's kick-off. His team scored from the 3-yard line as a result of his efforts. Harvard on the other hand, was within short striking distance of the Holy Cross goal line twice, when the attack stalled in face of the determined defense of the opposing forwards. The Crimson had plenty of power, but it was often sluggish and blundering. It lacked a reliable ground-gaining play, such as the Purple off-tackle thrust, to deliver the scoring punch...