Word: second
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brunner's first series of Gifford lectures was delivered at Scotland's St. Andrews University in 1947, and published last year. Published last week was his second series of lectures-Christianity and Civilization, Part 2 (Scribner...
...Philadelphia, the Ivy League championship for the second year running went to Cornell, which put on a spectacular rally and sank Pennsylvania...
Boston's Ted Williams, one of baseball's most talented and temperamental stars, stirred up a storm last week without moving a muscle. All he did was to win (for the second time in his career) the American League's award as Most Valuable Player of the year. Boston was pleased, but Manhattan sportwriters erupted with such comments as "greatest farce ever perpetrated in sports in the guise of an official poll." They wanted to know why the award, voted by the Baseball Writers' Association, had not gone to somebody on the pennant-winning New York...
Last week at its convention in Sacramento, the National Grange, second largest of the three main U.S. farm groups,*condemned the Brannan plan and went beyond; it also questioned many of the chief points in the whole support program. It called the Brannan program "an internal cancer that would ultimately destroy our free enterprise system...
Glittering Cibola. Coronado, the second son of a Spanish nobleman, had no money of his own. The law of primogeniture had sent him packing to the New World in search of his fortune. Five years before, in 1535, he had arrived in Mexico City at the side of the viceroy; an "attractive and popular" man, he had been made governor of Nueva Galicia, the province just northwest of the capital...