Word: crossings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This song, Rendezvous, is for fickle Maria who made a desperate lover wait two hours the other night . . ." "This samba is for redhaired, snub-nosed Sabina, who lives by the watermill . . ." "This record is for cross-eyed Albert so that, listening, he will have to stop his evil gossiping for at least four minutes...
Henry Margenau is not a likely man to cross the Federal Bureau of Investigation. True, he has been cleared by the FBI for government work; but things were not always so smooth for the Yale physicist and philosopher...
...Theoretically, the ballot was secret, but few voters used the booths set aside for them. To vote "Yes" (i.e., for the People's Front), the voter simply had to drop an unmarked ballot into the box. But if he wanted to vote "No," he had to make a cross on the ballot. Thus only "No" voters had any reason to walk into the booths; the names of those who did could be carefully noted. By midafternoon, on election day, eligible voters who had not appeared at the polls found typewritten notes under their doors: "Dear voting citizen: We have...
Frederic D. Houghteling '50 proposed that the money be raised by the customary percentage cut method. Supporters of the fixed fee claimed that students distrusted this method and would be more inclined to cross such deductions off their card...
...Canwell, turned its full attention to "subversive" activities on the U of W campus. Canwell, a photographer before his election, said, "the last hope of freedom rests with us." One month later, Canwell outlined his method of nourishing that last hope. "Counsel (for the defendants) . . . may not make objections, cross examine or make speeches...