Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which will be too big for the present locks, 2) provide an alternate route if one set of locks should be wrecked by enemy bombing planes. Meantime, the Army announced a plan to spend $53,000,000 on new defenses in the Canal Zone. For the Canal's second quarter-century may be as important in war as its first quarter-century was in commerce...
...horse race but plays the horses nevertheless-wiring his $2 bets directly to the tracks because there is no handbook operator* in little Anna. Every racing day for nearly two years Peewee Punter Elkins has played a Daily Double (a pair of horses picked to win the first and second races of the day's card). But he always picked the wrong combination. Instead of quitting, he continued to pore over form charts, continued to back up his judgment with...
...last week Student Elkins liked the looks of Merry Caroline, a cheap plater running in the second race at Chicago's Washington Park. He decided to couple Caroline with Joy Bet, the worst nag (and therefore probably the longest shot) listed for the first race. He wired his selection (and $2) and went about his chores...
...other big-game anglers have landed two in one day: Briton W. E. S. Tuker off Tocopilla, Chile and Calif ornian J. W. Jump off Catalina Island. What made last week's catch an unparalleled achievement was the fact that Angler Lerner had done it for the second time-one day in 1936, in the same waters, he caught a 535-pounder and a 601-pounder (a North American record...
...nearly all writers about Columbus were scholars ignorant of navigation, that they disagreed about whether he was history's greatest navigator or a landlubber. The professor went to the West Indies, sailed among the Lesser Antilles in a yawl, checking up on the western end of Columbus' second voyage. Last .year Professor Morison retraced part of Columbus' first voyage in a ten-day cruise around Haiti, claimed to have found the site of Navidad, first European settlement in the New World...