Word: crisscrossed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amid all this mechanism is the sole human occupant--Vag. There is room for only Vag there. He sits motionless at the single grilled window, staring out vacantly as he has done ever since The Descent early in January. His straight-focussed eyes gaze out through the crisscross grill which makes whatever he sees appear as if viewed through some huge bloodshot...
Like two dogs who feel they have an urgent appointment with a rabbit, the two major party candidates for President last week coursed hither and yon, frantically nosing crisscross tracks which to their nostrils had a delicious odor of election. Every time the scent turned and twisted, the two hounds raised their heads and bayed for the delectation of the countryside. Alf Landon's course, starting from Philadelphia, doubled back to Pittsburgh, veered to Newark. N. J., swept into Manhattan (where at the old-fashioned Murray Hill Hotel he met Al Smith for the first time), dashed...
...This agreement should put an end, once and for all, to the financial intrigue which for so many years clouded trunk line affairs. Even since 1920, legitimately ambitious railroads and even designing financiers have tied up the situation by crisscross investment much to the public confusion and disadvantage. But now there will be no future sparring for position. There will be no need for corporate or private speculation...
...Basle, Switzerland, where most of the railroads of central Europe crisscross, met last week for their first official session the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements...