Word: crossings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stocked larder. Cracked Hogan, coldly: "Next time I guess we'll have to leave our clubs at home and just have a meat show." The little Texan, not recovered from his near-fatal auto accident, was playing no tournament golf, but he was still a bad man to cross. Good-neighborliness dwindled to zero last week when Hogan demanded a look at the British team's irons before the matches-and pointed out that some of them were illegally grooved. An all-night argument over one set of British clubs was settled only five minutes before the first...
...Rhode Islanders who gathered in Providence's Roger Williams Park last week for an old-fashioned "Sunday in the Park" had a birthday to celebrate. In ten years, the Blue Cross (hospital insurance) plan had covered 532,000 subscribers-70% of all Rhode Islanders and 75% of all eligibles. In no other state had the plan been so successful. But something was missing: Rhode Island Blue Cross still could not cover doctors' fees...
...four years, Blue Cross had been trying to get the Rhode Island Medical Society's approval (required by state law) for a nonprofit, surgical insurance plan. Time & again the doctors vetoed Blue Cross proposals, often on technical quibbles. But the society had approved a limited plan covering only surgical fees. Skimpy as it was, Blue Cross offered this to its subscribers...
Other calculator experts (a minority) are not so sure. They admit that even the Mark III is crude compared to a human brain with its billions of cross-connected nerve cells. Yet the Mark III can already beat the human brain at certain tedious tasks. Imaginative scientists can only' guess at what other mental marvels its more efficient descendants will be able to produce...
...directs an Athens underground during the Nazi occupation; U.S. Airman Tommy McPhail, whose plane has been shot down over Greece and who wants to be gotten back to his base; royalists and Communists; patriots and plotters; Greek girls and English girls, and one calculating American number in a Red Cross uniform...