Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...native Virginians, the Fauquier County horsy set is "the second Yankee invasion." Red-blooded Virginians Montgomery are Britishers "once removed," the Calverts hale from Pittsburgh...
Meantime, October railroad carloadings were up 18.7% over last year. This was not surprising. For 15 years, whether traffic is good or bad, trucks have tended to do a little better than railroads. In 1925, when anybody with enough spare cash for a second-hand truck could go into the trucking business, trucks carried less than 2% of all U. S. freight. The rest was taken care of by the railroads (76%), waterways (17%), pipe lines (5%). By 1937 trucks were up to 5%, railroads down to 66%, and the process apparently still goes...
...Second and hardest working: After the Thin...
Historical novels still supply a big share, and bigger bulk, of any season's second-raters. Among the most recent batch of ten, the following are typical...
...which could be called good second-rate, some had first-rate assets-usually on the side of their entertainment value-but were definitely second-grade when placed alongside the best novels of their kind. They were...