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Word: second (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Laurence Stallings, 44, one-legged playwright and scenarist (The Big Parade, What Price Glory?), and his second wife: a son, their first child; in Manhattan. Name: Laurence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Divorced. Clark Gable, 38, all-round cinema heman; by his second wife, Maria ("Rhea") Langham Gable, 48, Texas oil heiress; in Las Vegas, Nev. Grounds: desertion. Said Cinemactress Carole Lombard, whose friendship with Gable was publicized in a fan-magazine article on "Hollywood's Unmarried Husbands and Wives" (TIME, Dec. 19): "When he gets a few days off and I am not busy perhaps we will sneak away and have the ceremony performed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Rusty Greenhood came through with the only Harvard win in Saturday night's concluding events in the individual championships of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League, scoring 119.5 points to snare the high-board dive for the second consecutive year...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Rusty Greenhood, Eric Cutler Chalk up Only Crimson Firsts in Eastern Swim | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...eight events scheduled for the second day of competition, Princeton took four firsts, Yale three, and Harvard one, leaving the Crimson with a total of three victories--two dive titles for Greenhood and a 440 triumph for Eric Cutler...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Rusty Greenhood, Eric Cutler Chalk up Only Crimson Firsts in Eastern Swim | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Cutler won his heat of the 220 in 2:17.6, but succumbed to Ned Parke's driving finish in the final, losing by one foot to the Princeton sophomore who was clocked in 2:16.8. Frannie Powers, timed in 2:18.6 in the qualifying round when he was second to Parke, ended up sixth in the final...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Rusty Greenhood, Eric Cutler Chalk up Only Crimson Firsts in Eastern Swim | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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