Word: second
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Loss to C.I.O. of I.L.G.W.U., second largest of the original C.I.O. unions, will mean loss of one of the most progressive, most solvent, most ably led industrial unions in the country. Whether the garment workers remain independent or return to a gleeful A. F. of L. remains to be worked...
Mexico City estimating the take at less than 100,000 pesos ($25,000) was immediately followed by another estimating it at more than 300,000 pesos ($75,000). Meanwhile, Mexico's Second Federal District Court handed down a decision that when the 18,000 Mexican petroleum workers staged their uprising and seized the oil lands for the Mexican Government, this was equivalent to their having been discharged by the former U. S. and British owners. Judge Ignacio Martinez Alomia handed down at Mexico City last week a blanket decision that the former employers of the 18,000 workers...
...course in marriage was ruddy little Ernest Rutherford Groves, 60, University of North Carolina's famed sociologist. He has been married twice (his first wife died ), has four children. To tell others how to find happiness in marriage he has written 28 books (six of them with his second wife...
...combination of chemical circumstances; 3) life was transported to earth in meteorites or some other carrier, from somewhere else in the universe. Quite satisfactory to many people is the first answer, which renders further inquiry into the problem superfluous. Most biologists, however, prefer to make a choice between the second and the third...
...those who prefer the second answer is Associate Director A. I. Oparin of the Biochemical Institute of the Soviet Academy of Science. For more than 15 years Dr. Oparin has studied the question in the light of present-day chemical knowledge. Between life and nonlife, in his opinion, there is no sharp boundary. He does not believe that life emerged suddenly and spontaneously from dead matter, but that it developed very gradually after a long preliminary evolution of organic but nonliving substances. In this slow unfolding an observer would have been unable to say just where life began, unless...