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Word: third (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heard from U. S. Ambassador to Belgium Joseph E. Davies that a third term is necessary to save the U. S. from war involvement; pondered how to keep the politically influential Mr. Davies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Green Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Philadelphia knows it; few Philadelphians seem to care. The city's gas plant is in hock to RFC. Its public libraries can afford to replace only 20,000 of 85,000 dog-eared books which are thumbed to tatters each year. More than a third of Philadelphia's annual revenues go to service old debts. Expensive subways, promoted during the heedless '203, are sealed and empty catacombs; Philadelphia lacked the money to run them or to pay for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Brothers | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Said General Johnson of Mr. Roosevelt: "A third term . . . a fourth and a fifth term . . . a 15th term, and finally elect Jimmy Roosevelt and then start all over again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: 1940 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Third Termites were added two Oklahomans-Senator Josh Lee and former Governor Martin Edwin Trapp; also Ambassador to Belgium Joseph E. Davies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: 1940 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Winthrop and Dormitory sextets battled it out last night to a 2 to 2 tie, climaxing the third series of inter-House hockey matches at the Boston Skating Club rink in Brighton. This was the last House athletic contest of any kind this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTHROP, DORMITORY TIE IN HOUSE HOCKEY | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

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