Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cline is a graduate of the Wiley High School in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was captain of his football team and high man in his class. He also got his Phi Beta Kappa key in his third year, and has been self supporting while in college...
...Moslem population of twice their number. One cannot help but sympathize with these desert dwellers in their fight against inundation by a flood of alien settlers, who have a diametrically opposed philosophy of life. Even if no displacement of population is intended, a minority of less than one-third of the inhabitants should not expect to exercise governmental control...
...students, toward the provision of a "key to future education" which would make learning a life-long process. Second is its subject matter. This is American history in the broadest sense--cultural, scientific, and economic as well as political history, all brought into a unified and correlated whole. Third is its position in the field of education. The Plan seeks to bridge a number of academic departments, to break down the water-tight bulwarks separating the independent and specialized compartments into which the modern academic world has divided itself...
Buried beneath an avalanche of facts, figures, and uninteresting detail there is in the report on Law School eating conditions this inescapable fact: no more than one third of the men are satisfied, and probably one half are dissatisfied, with conditions as they exist today. Such a general statement is necessarily subject to qualification on many different scores, and is based on returns from only one half of the graduate body; but nevertheless it carries important implications for all students -- undergraduates and graduates alike--who have hopes of obtaining from the University their daily bread...
Well, we left at eleven-twenty; by that time Orson Welles' "Five Kings" had got through the whole of Henry IV Part One, and up to the crowning of Henry V in Part II; some people said that Henry V made a third act, also, but we had to get home in time to milk the cows...