Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within sat Dr. Charles H. Lee, 71, second cousin of the South's Robert E. Lee, for eleven years the rector of Christ Church. He was preparing his Sunday sermon and his wife sat quietly nearby. They were both slightly deaf, and when they heard a sound they said something about a motor backfiring. Presently Mrs. Lee went to bed. Then the .38 outside cracked again and Dr. Lee slumped down, shot clean through the temple...
...submerged, the scientists stolidly moved the tent to higher & dryer ice. calmly radioed to Moscow: "We. . . . have saved all our instruments and records and we have food for three months. The floe goes on cracking. There is no room for a radio antenna, so we have erected a second mast on a nearby floe...
...sales on the installment plan seems to indicate that consumers like it. Retailers now sell almost everything on installments-not only "hard" goods, the washing machines, jewelry, and automobiles of the 1920s, but also "soft" goods, tires, clothing, perfume, goods which are consumed quickly or which have no second-hand value-so retailers evidently like it. Finance companies handle about two-thirds of all installment sales and they like it. But Mr. Merriam does not like it. The finance companies, who are the most articulate defenders of the installment system, point to their Depression record. Between 1929 and 1932, though...
...tried four times to escape. The second time, he and eight companions got hold of an Indian dugout, headed into the Caribbean. When they ran into rough weather and it turned out that none of them knew navigation, they beached the boat, started back through dense jungle for the Penal Colony. A peg-legged convict killed a comrade for his can of condensed milk, and the leader in turn killed him. They roasted and ate his liver and his good left leg, of which Belbenoit confesses that one mouthful (which tasted like wild pig) was enough...
This is the second book on Magellan in two months. In Charles Ford's Death Sails With Magellan (TIME. Nov. 15) the ill-fated Portuguese navigator was portrayed as a cold-blooded martinet who double-crossed his best friends, intended to double-cross Spain and set up his own kingdom in the East Indies...