Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitler Visit No. 2 (later the same day): ". . . He was quite calm the second time and never raised his voice once. . . . He was, he said, 50 years old: he preferred war now to when he would be 55 or 60. I told him it was absurd to talk of extermination. Nations could not be exterminated and a peaceful, prosperous Germany was a British interest. His answer was that it was England who was fighting for the lesser races whereas he was fighting only for Germany: Germans would this time fight to the last man: it would have been different...
...Fourth Army, under Duke Albrecht, was to swing in a wider arc through Luxembourg into the dense Ardennes forest, cross the Meuse and the Aisne northwest of the Crown Prince's Army, and sweep south toward Châlons. Other concentric arcs were mapped for the Third and Second Armies under Generals Hausen and Buülow, respectively, who jumped off from between Aachen and Trier. Hausen's objective before swinging south was near Namur on the Meuse in Belgium. Billow's course pointed for Maubeuge on the French frontier after cracking through the forts...
...there any explanation for prolonged heavy firing heard four days later off Bergen, Norway. There mighty detonations shook houses of fisherfolk. and reverberations of small-calibre firing sounded for 14 hours. But the British Admiralty said it knew of no naval engagement in the area. So the "Second Battle of Jutland" remained a mystery. But it revived talk that perhaps some day soon the British would try to force their way into the Baltic, to cut off Germany's seaborne supplies from Scandinavia and Russia, perhaps to land troops on Germany's northern coast...
Long-armed Governor Lewis O. Barrows of Maine triumphed for the second straight year in the annual potato-picking contest between the Governor of Maine and the Governor of Idaho, 382½ to 365 pounds. Said Champion Barrows: "I did it by just sticking my nose in the row." Said worsted Governor Clarence A. Bottolfsen: "That's hard work...
...take in a dozen towns, its ratio of barter to cash went down, from 9-to-1 to 3-to-2. Not only food, but puppies, razor blades, coffins were offered in payment. A pig traded in the first year for a season ticket produced a litter the second year and started a profitable little sideline in hams. Today, as in the beginning, neither actors nor playwrights receive any cash. To such playwrights as Robert Sherwood, Noel Coward, Maxwell Anderson and Vegetarian George Bernard Shaw have gone hams for royalties. Shaw refused his, demanded spinach instead. Among dozens of productions...