Word: second-best
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...will once again be slight favorites both in the afternoon field events in Yale's Coxe Cage in New Haven and evening races at the 102nd Regiment Armory in New York. Ten Eastern colleges are participating. The Elis have defending champions in sprinter Corson Ellis, vaulter Neil King, their second-best vaulter, and an almost intact two-mile relay team. The West Pointers return with titlists Dick Shea, two miler, and Harold Shultz, hurdler...
...Department itself helped start what some retailers called a "hidden boost" in meat prices by announcing a change in the methods of grading beef. The top-grade "prime" was broadened to include the second-best "choice." The third best, formerly called "good," was upgraded to ''choice...
...ready to do: rest on his financial oars by bringing out. "a collection of my short stories, plays, and miscellaneous essays." And yet, if there is nothing in Occupation: Writer that shows Robert Graves in the full splendor of his poetry, or even at his first-rate, second-best (as in some of his novels, mythological studies and essays on poetry) there is still more here in the way of humor, erudition and intellectual enthusiasm than most writers ever achieve at their best...
...doing well, have a fire in their heels to do still better, and in their thoughtful moments suffer a fugitive feeling of discontentment from start to finish. Charley and Nancy have been to college; they have a house and a car, even a membership in Sycamore Park's second-best country club. All they want at the moment (besides the vice-presidency) is a newer car, membership in the Hawthorn Hill Club, prep school for the children and, later, when they can manage it, a rather better house...
...could outwit an equally smart psychologist who doesn't. As the cop, Wendell Corey, a comparative newcomer from Broadway, not only steals scenes from Movie Veterans Young and Cummings, but also makes the semi-villain so real and likable that audiences may feel the heroine has won the second-best...