Word: recrossing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Summerlin's responsibilities begin when the royal train crosses the international boundary from Canada shortly before midnight Wednesday. They continue until the visitors recross the boundary early Monday morning, except for such time as Their Majesties are in the company of President Roosevelt. Then Colonel Starling takes over...
Before quitting Russia to make for Manhattan this week aboard the Queen Mary, then recross the Atlantic to attend the Coronation of George VI, successful new U. S. Ambassador to Russia & Mrs. Joseph E. Davies gathered at their Spasso Palace in Moscow last week the flower of the Red Army, to be exact its three toughest plants: Voroshilov, Tukhachevsky and Budenny...
...lives of all these people cross and recross: one sees events from varied points of view. Occasionally a chapter--for example, that called "Nancy Mitchell Keeps Her Dignity"--emerges a polished short story, but always the incidents are a part of the whole, which is a social novel written in Miss Holtby's competent, good-humored style...
...help me, sor"--she began, fidgeting the while, but the Vagabond had already melted with compassion. He dug deep into his pocket, found the coin, gave it to the old woman, and passed on. Her thanks were a mumbled blessing, and she hurried to recross the street, for there was another pedestrian approaching--A pedestrian whose saddle shoes were new, whose bow tie was immaculate, and whose pockets were, no doubt, deeper...
Besides the 100 men in the planes, some 300 men on land and water are engaged in helping the squadron to cross and recross the ocean. Every scheduled stopping point and an emergency station at Greenland will be manned by crews of meteorologists, radiomen, mechanics. About 15 cruisers and trawlers and even two submarines (good at snaking through drift ice) patrol the course. Last link in the preparations which held up the take-off last week was establishment of the base at Labrador. The supply ship Alicia had not yet crashed the late icejam from the Strait of Belle Isle...