Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the National Peasants Federation, which claims 2,000,000 members. A one-time cavalry officer who has always taken care of the Army's wants while in office, General Avila already has the backing of a large share of Mexico's military men, who compose the third largest voting bloc...
...autumn. Almost as popular was Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Impound, son of famed Sun Beau, who beat Porter's Mite in a short handicap race at Santa Anita two weeks before. The twelve others, proudly prancing to the starting line, were expected to fight it out for third place...
...When the dust had settled, 50,000 gasping spectators realized that a filly had won the Santa Anita Derby for the first time and had won it by the largest margin ever-five lengths. Co-favorites Porter's Mite and Impound had fought it out indeed, but for third place, one length behind Xalapa Clown...
Arriving in Manhattan for his third U. S. exhibition, Surrealist Salvador Dali refused to admit that he understands his own paintings: "It is enough to do the painting, much less trying to understand...
...Lawrence Oilman had the sniffles. Reading Donald Tovey's recondite Essays in Musical Analysis, he came across a sentence which made him hop out of bed and call up NBC's Musical Commentator Samuel Chotzinoff. Did Mr. Toscanini know that Wagner's original prelude to the third act of Tannhauser, which got only one performance (at the opera's world premiere, 1845), was much longer than the one usually played? Arturo Toscanini, who has a memory like a telephoto camera, could remember having seen some such score. On Tuesday a phone call was put through...