Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Second, that the program be based in the several Houses and thus serve as "part of the communications network between the student and his House...
...second such test in perfecting the escape mechanism designed to save the astronauts' lives if they run into trouble during launchings...
...evening fell and the final tabulations of the eight-day event came in, Eliot, with 4,537 laps, led the second-place Commuters and Cooperatives by a strapping 2,000 lengths. Whitman Hall, although scheduled as Eliot's partner made only a trivial contribution to the victory. With each of the 15 Eliot watergirls allowed to swim no more than 100 laps a day, their average distance was three miles of open water...
Under the Fifth Republic, French foreign policy--except in the colonial field--has been more concerned with form than with content. Charlemagne, having decided that loose talk of France as a second-rate power had gone far enough, served notice that henceforth France would be heard from in Western councils. France has been heard from, sure enough, but it has had distressingly little...
...France is a second-rate power--militarily, strategically, and economically--and most of the politicians of the Fourth Republic were ready to admit it, if only in unguarded moments. The French remain part of the "Big" four only through archaic convention, and through the conviction of some Western leaders that being on the right side in World War II is more important than physical power in computing diplomatic "size...