Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...physicists by retracting a theory which he had espoused two and a half years ago, and by putting forth a new one in its place. Cosmic rays are electrified particles which constantly bombard Earth from every direction. It is estimated that about 30 shoot through every human body every second. They have energies higher than any particles ever propelled by man-made machines- energies, in some cases, measured in hundreds of billions of electron-volts...
...Helen Jacobs and Helen Wills Moody. Of the two most famed rivals, Helen Jacobs, out of recent competition because of an injured shoulder, was not even seeded. And Helen Moody, trying for her third comeback in international tennis after three years out of major tournaments, was no better than second choice to win over Co-Favorites Alice Marble and Jaja Jedrzejowska...
...shore of the Atlantic and the shore of the Pacific one afternoon last week lusty boos arose from the throats of 116,000 racetrack fans. At Suffolk Downs, on Boston Harbor, 66,000 New Englanders, the second largest crowd ever to witness a horse race in the U. S. gathered to watch a loudly ballyhooed meeting of War Admiral and Seabiscuit, two of the seven entries in the $50,000 added Massachusetts Handicap. Three thousand miles away, in brand-new Hollywood Park at Inglewood, 50,000 Californians gathered to watch a highly touted race, for a $50,000 purse, between...
...modern psychologists, that Latin, Greek and mathematics are the most valuable subjects for training youngsters to think. He believes it is better for a boy to learn French by formal methods in the U. S. than by talking with Frenchmen in Paris, for a boy who learns by the second method "has had no more mental discipline than a little street Arab in a foreign town." Still stanchly Tory, he sums up his social views: "Truly the future has less to fear from individual than from cooperative selfishness...
Born to Cinemactress Joan Blondell and her Cinemactor-Husband Dick Powell: a daughter, her second child, his first (last February he adopted her 3-year-old son); in Los Angeles. Name: Ellen; weight...