Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...myself, I do not feel quite as confident about Laura Riding's status as you do. What's the difference? What you said . . . was a great boost for a viewpoint which it has taken some of us a third of a century |to present...
...Herbert Hoover's government, he declared that "You cannot go very far with any real Federal economy without a complete change of concept of what are the proper functions and limits of the Federal Government itself." Last week he told Congress practically the same thing-that a third of the Government's activities would have to be cut out to balance the budget. But last week he used the statement as a conclusive argument against reducing expenditures...
...performed Felix Frankfurter's marriage ceremony in 1919. Friend Holmes told Massachusetts it would be lucky to get him on its Supreme Court. Friend Roosevelt's tribute last week was equally impressive. For up to the last moment pressure was strong on the President to make his third Supreme Court appointment count politically by giving it to the West (now represented only by Minnesotan Pierce Butler) and possibly to a Catholic. The President paid his respects to Catholics by naming Frank Murphy Attorney General. He succeeded in paying sufficient respect to the West by asking Nebraska...
Bill Cann of Eliot took first in diving and second in the 50-yard free-style to be second highest in the scoring in the meet. Dunster defaulted for the third straight time, although two Funsters, willing and ready to swim, did show up at the appointed time, Both Eliot and Leverett were given victories over Dunster...
...Third was Howard Hollmeyer closely followed by Karl Porges in fourth position. In a tie for fifth were Bill Thurston, Freshman star, and Moncrief Coch ran, while Dick Shepley came in seventh...