Word: across
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slumped back with her head against the wall. The corridor and waiting rooms outside the justice's chambers were crowded. A group of reporters stood in the corner. At a long mahogany table facing the Supreme Court Justice's desk sat the young lady's parents. Across the table from them sat a young man with a belligerently cheerful smile. With him was his lawyer. "It's real love," the lawyer told the reporters...
...oldest items are a set of newspaper articles from 1781 telling how the Sophomores and Freshmen played their traditional football game in the fall. Included is a list of college customs forbidding the game or any other games near college buildings and prohibiting students from "throwing anything across the Yard...
...hands were assembled in the Bürgerbräu Keller, a low, barnlike building on Rosenheimerstrasse beyond the Deutsches Museum, and across the Isar River from Munich proper. Old friends greeted each other in the big, oblong beer hall-sanctum sanctorum of the Nazi Party, perhaps the best guarded room frequented by the best guarded man in the world. The veterans packed the balcony; pressed around the one central pillar supporting the entire ceiling; crowded to the very foot of the speaker's white rostrum. The big men-Hitler, Göebbels, Himmler, Frick, Hess, Ley, Rosenberg, Streicher...
...This week violence was abroad in Germany: a large barracks of Adolf Hitler's Elite Guard at Konstanz, just across the border from Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, burned; 43 were killed and 60 injured in a collision of two passenger trains on a single track line near Oppeln, Prussia...
...inside. Clusters of giant grey bats whirred out of potholes. Crabs the size of footballs, their eyes bugging like periscopes, squatted on the floor, waved huge pincers, hissed like snakes. A luminescent lizard slithered into a dark crevice. An enormous red rat nudged his foot. Giant spider-centipedes scuttled across his hands. Blood-sucking vampire bats gnashed from black ledges...