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Word: third (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Biggest working telescope is Mt. Wilson's 100-incher in California. This will drop to second place and the McDonald instrument to third when Caltech gets its 200-inch giant into action, perhaps next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Where, How & Why? | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Underwritten by Travelers Insurance Co. of Hartford, the Ford policy is the third largest in the world, being exceeded only by that of U. S. Steel Corp. ($398,000,000) and General Motors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Third Largest | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Muse of Robert Frost, No. i of living U. S, poets, has been his wife. Since her death, a year ago, he has gathered practically all his published poetry (about a third of what he has written) in his Collected Poems. In the book's characteristically half-evasive, half-outspoken foreword, The Figure a Poem Makes, Frost says: "It [a poem] begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same as for love." Frost's book begins in knowledge and ends in perplexity; but the figure it makes is Frost himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Muse | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Bert Haines's prize package 150 pounders lived up to all hopes last Saturday as the first boat nosed out the Eli lightweight crew by a third of a length on Lake Carnegie to take the Goldthwait Cup. The Princeton crew was left three lengths in the wake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 150-Pound Oarsmen Go Ahead of Yale, Princeton to Capture Goldthwait Cup | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

With Dartmouth in third place the Crimson now hold a half-game lead over Cornell, who defeated Yale Friday in a romp...

Author: By Theodore R. Barnett, | Title: Stahlmen Overpower Dartmouth 8-5 to Pace Eastern League | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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