Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to proceed to the second phase of the game, it was then assumed that "The Blues" had succeeded in taking the Galibier "by surprise...
...months ago, after a rowdy guest night at nearby Larkhill Artillery School, four 20-year-old second lieutenants were seized with an inspiration to improve on antiquity. Next morning, for the first time in 1,000 years, the rays of the rising sun discovered a new glory in Stonehenge. A glistening coat of green paint instead of dull lichens covered ancient dolmens. Atop great menhirs sat shining chamber pots...
Britain's cautiously mediating Viscount Runciman, having spent his first Czechoslovak weekend at the castle of Count Jiri Kinsky, who is pro-Czech, spent his second weekend at the castle of the Count's cousin, Prince Ulrich Kinsky, who is pro-German. Apart from this effort at impartiality, Lord Runciman last week continued to make the Czechoslovak Government nervous by devoting most of his time to conferences with henchmen of Sudeten German Nazi Führer Konrad Henlein...
Arturo Toscanini (Thurs. 12:05 p.m., NBC-Blue) conducts a specially assembled Swiss orchestra at the first International Music Festival at Villa Triebschen, Lake of Lucerne, in Richard Wagner's A Siegfried Idyll, (12:30 p.m., NBC-Red) in Beethoven's Second Symphony...
Lamaist Tibet became a godless land nearly nine months ago when death came to the second, and more spiritual, of its "living gods," His Serenity the Panchen (or Tashi) Lama, "Buddha of Boundless Light" (TIME, Dec. 13). Long dead was Tibet's latest temporal god, the Dalai Lama. Last week, according to reports from India, Tibet still lacked living gods, was becoming increasingly embarrassed at having in its midst one god who was extremely dead. From Jyekundo, where the Panchen Lama died, a retinue of 1,000 lamas, Chinese soldiers and relations of the Buddha set out last winter...