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...Harvard first-year squad comprises R. F. Baum, D. H. Burnham, Jr., G. H. Collins, Jr., Wilfred Crossley, G. F. Gilmore, M. F. Bill, Jr., J. C. McNaughton, W. H. Nelson, Jr., F. S. North, David Rockefeller, M. K. Ruddock, and Craig Wallace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1936 Golfers Meet New Prep | 5/3/1933 | See Source »

...field limousine for shooting on the moors is a Crossley, each rear wheel fitted with two tires to give double traction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royal Motors | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

George V's preference for Daimlers dates from the purchase of a one-cylinder car of that make by his father, Edward VII. That young iconoclast, Edward of Wales, owns a Rolls-Royce town car, but like his father uses a Crossley in the field. The Sovereign's sister, Queen Maud of Norway, recently gave her son, Crown Prince Olaf, a U. S. Marmon sedan (purchased in London) for a wedding present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royal Motors | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Landau and she would give them to her father, who would sell them to bedizened women. In addition to the gems, they found the chief steward, a tall, good looking man, popular with all Berengaria passengers, whose income from tips was $15,000 a year, whose valet was Thomas Crossley Earnshaw, who had a wife and a cottage in Southampton, England, and who had been a Cunard employe for 20 years. On the Berengaria, he had managed a glee club as well as his smuggling racket; when accused of the latter he broke down and wept piteously, asserting that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Diamond Commerce | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

Doctoring Drugs. Drugs may be made more effective and less harmful to the patient by mixing a magnesium salt with them, according to the researches of Dr. Moses Leverock Crossley of Bound Brook, N. J. The magnesium salt acts upon the body allowing the drug to penetrate more freely, quickening the action, reducing the dosage in many cases. Magnesium made aspirin twice as effective; made morphine injections last four times their ordinary duration; made codein, which ordinarily has no effect on temperature, reduce fevers. Any salt of magnesium may be used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atoms, Drugs, Wines | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

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