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...lipogrammata, univocalic verses, Richelieu's equivoque or Swift's "Lacerated Latin" verses, in which Latin words make English statements ("Omi de armis tres,/ Imi na dis tres./ Cantu disco ver/ Meas alo ver?"). But he does include a section on the word square, the prototype of the crossword puzzle, and tops it off with an impressive sentence square composed entirely of five-letter words...
...Crimson offense has scored more goals this year, but never has it looked as efficient as it did in the second half. Halfbacks and forward stitched a network of short passes, as neatly formed as the squares of a crossword puzzle, to baffle Princeton's defense...
British university. There he whipped his white friends at word games, studiously subdued the crossword puzzles in the Scotsman, and whetted the "politics of complaint," which would lead him to the presidency of Tanganyika. Then he went home...
...deeper into the paper, the red mounted: classified ads, stock prices, vital statistics and public notices were all red, along with the funnies, the editorials, feature columns, crossword puzzle, horoscope, advice to the lovelorn and, of course, radio and television listings...
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., April 17--Raymond A. Sokolov, Jr., a Harvard junior living in the University's Well House, writes Crossword in his "spare time" for the undergraduate daily newspaper, the Harvard CRIMSON...