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Word: crossings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the crash, Albert Guay, a jeweler and onetime munitions worker, had urged investigators to "get to the bottom of this." He bought a great cross of flowers to be placed on Rita's coffin. To a priest he said: "If God wanted it, I accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Flight to Baie Comeau | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...precious stones which pilgrims threw upon the altar steps. Then, as soon as the pilgrims' spiritual obligations had been taken care of, the Roman citizenry joined gleefully in the ancient custom of taking the pilgrims to the cleaners. In those days, hawkers sold enough "pieces of the True Cross" to build a small village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Money-Changers | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...planned to make a killing with beer bottles made in the shape of St. Peter's basilica. (Rome's patent office frowned on the idea.) Police clamped down on a photographer's ingenious gadget: a strip of photographs of the Pope making the sign of the cross; when slipped through the hand, the device would give its owner the sensation of personally receiving the Pope's blessing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Money-Changers | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...midfield, facing the Crimson section, a jump formation will bring the Band to a stand in letters reading "Crimson." The finale, for the Columbia section, will be a crown topped by a cross...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Docs Half-Time Act for Lions Today | 10/1/1949 | See Source »

...Special events" highlights will come when the Social Service Committee, through the cooperation of the Harvard Athletic Association, escorts some of its settlement house boys to the football varsity's games with Cornell, Brown, and Holy Cross...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Maps Big Social Service Year | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

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