Word: second-best
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...Philadelphia, trying to stretch the second-best current winning streak in the U. S. to 13 games in a row, Princeton got past Pennsylvania's 10-yd. line five times, past its goal-line never. Penn's touchdown, on Quarterback Lew Elverson's 57-yd. run before the game was ten minutes old, made the score the same as that of Princeton's last defeat-by Yale...
...hours Senator Borah, who can not sleep well on trains and will not fly, completed a long detour around Pennsylvania's floods, detrained wearily at Youngstown, Ohio. There were seven inches of snow. There were 75 greeters to meet him. There was a room in Youngstown's second-best hotel. There was a dinner of Young Republicans, attended by about half the expected number of guests. There was a police escort. There was a speech in Stambaugh Auditorium...
...experimenting done in the seatings this week and will not have an easy time with the Tiger Seconds. Princeton has found its Jayvees as good as its Varsity several times during the past two weeks and Coach Sikes has had a hard job choosing the best and second-best eight. As in the Varsity contest odds put the Engineers in third place...
...cigaret code, lost in the White House office for days (TIME, Feb. 11), was found. Promptly the President signed it, bringing the big tobacco companies after 18 months' delay into NRA. Hardly had the President done so when William Green, who had just come off second-best in an argument with him, declared the A. F. of L. keenly disappointed that the minimum wage of the code was 25? an hour. One kick Mr. Green could not make: that S. Clay Williams, as head of NIRB and erstwhile president of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., had been partial...
...Before that she has ample proof that all is not well in her family. Her sister Charlotte runs off with a ham actor. Rumors of her father's impending ruin drive Sara to a shocking interview with his mistress. Again & again the faithful Paul offers himself as a second-best husband, but Sara will not have him even after he is a widower. In spite of his unexplained departure and long silence, in spite of the series of anonymous letters telling what kind of man he is, she still believes in her beloved Lucius, whom she sends away angry...