Word: second
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Institution directors had their wits about them when they signed the contract, that the Smithsonian's scientific writers were receiving $47,000 pay for their efforts and the Institution, for merely lending its scientists and its name, would reap $43,750 on the first edition alone; when the second edition (at $150) is offered the general public, royalties would be enormous...
...cleared the obstacle but the evenness of his jump had been broken and he crashed. Tipperary Tim, 100 to 1, the only other mounted horse to survive, came on to win. Little Tommy Cullinan, Billy's jockey, rose, shook himself, remounted and rode on to finish second. Billy Barton has been in England since autumn waiting for March 22. A few weeks ago, after frosts that kept the turf hardened, he was taken to Tenby, on the sheltered southern coast of Wales, to limber up in the sands. Now he is pronounced fit although there were rumors last week...
Prince Louis Ferdinand Victor Edward Adalbert Michael Hubert von Hohenzollern, 21-year-old grandson of onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II, and second son of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, last week landed in New York. Having just received his Ph. D. from the University of Berlin, he is in the U. S. for a three-week visit to study, like any European, "conditions." Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, Great Britain's impeccable Home Secretary, last week punctuated his campaign against indecency (TIME, Dec. 31), in which he has already suppressed eleven books, with a Final Appeal. Addressing a meeting of British...
Engagement Reported. Playwright Eugene (Strange Interlude) O'Neill; to Danish-French actress Carlotta Monterey, onetime leading woman in Playwright O'Neill's The Hairy Ape. He cannot be married until a final decree of divorce has been granted to his second wife, Agnes Burton O'Neill, by whom he has two children, Una and Shane...
Although Yale's strong swordsmen placed first in all three weapons in the New England division of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association meet at the B. A. A. gymnasium Saturday evening, the weakened Harvard teams gained second places in the foils and epee and will represent the University in these events in the finals at New York next week. Dartmouth's sabre team qualified, while M. I. T. did not place...