Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...animal kingdom, always useful to cartoonists, provided striking companion pieces from the pens of Harold Talburt of Scripps-Howard and Hugh Hutton of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Talburt's showed the master magician producing a Deficit Hippopotamus as lesser men produce rabbits. Hutton's showed a third-term tuna playfully leaping over Franklin Roosevelt, as he fished with a bobber for the small game of this year's election...
...Aboard the Roosevelt third-term band wagon stepped Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy. Speaking at Traverse City, he said: "The nation comes first. . . . We may have to draft the President for four more years of leadership...
...departure. Novelty of the system lies in shuffling the courses so that a boy studies only one subject per year. In the first year (known as Second Form) pupils study geography -as related to literature, mathematics, world history, human relationships. Next year French is the major subject and Third Formers live in a separate house, speak only French, conduct all classes in French, master by year's end better than the equivalent of fourth year French conversation, composition, history, literature. (No other language is offered, on the grounds that it is better to learn one language well than...
Washington Avenue is a residential street that cuts due north and south through the low rolling hills of The Bronx. It begins north of the Harlem River where the Third Avenue Elevated slices off on the bias, and it ends, some 40 blocks beyond, at the campus of Fordham University. In its most populous stretch, between Claremont and Tremont, it is a cheerful, neighborly street, where on the summer evenings Jewish housewives lean from their windows or sit in chairs drawn out on the sidewalks, where kids on roller skates coast down the slight slope and where the tumult...
Married. Hephzibah Menuhin, 18, piano-playing sister of violin-playing Yehudi; to Lindsay Nicholas, 22-year-old Australian rancher and brother of Yehudi's bride of two months; with no music; at Los Gatos, Calif. Hephzibah was the third & last of the three Menuhins to wed, all in two months. Younger Sister Yaltah is married to Washington Attorney William Stix...