Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...community majority; foreign affairs and national affairs affecting the whole country to be administered from Prague. 2) A plebiscite under foreign control to determine whether the Sudetens want to be citizens of Germany or Czechoslovakia. "The result," assured Henlein, "would be a 98% majority for Germany." 3) "The third solution," continued the Führer, "would be simpler still." It is that if Czech repression of the Sudetens continues, their resentment may one day force the German Government by direct action to bring them within the frontiers of the Reich...
...Charley Yates and Johnny Goodman respectively on the second day. "Well, Johnny, it's better to be lucky than good," drawled Atlanta's Yates, the team's clown, after he had ousted Fischer by laying him a dead stymie on the 19th green. In the third round, Captain Ouimet was nosed out on the last hole by hard-hitting Cecil Ewing, one of Ireland's best. On the fourth day, a lashing gale and pounding rain swept even sturdy Johnny Goodman off his balance and out of the tournament, beaten by his teammate Charley Kocsis...
Since that milestone in his life, Johnny Goodman has proved that he was no flash in the pan. He was third best amateur in the 1929 U. S. Open, second-best in 1930, best in 1932 and again last year. In 1933 he finally won the Open against a field of top-notch professionals. In the U. S. Amateur, he was runner-up in 1932, a semifinalist in 1935 and 1936. Last year he finally won the Amateur to become the first golfer since Jones to win both the Open and Amateur. He has broken 64 records...
Rowing bow is Phillips Hallowell '40, number three on the Third Varsity, who held down the five oar on last year's Freshman crew. Jim Snow '39 of the Thirds will cox. He was in the steering position in the 1936 Yardling boat...
...salaries. But the fact that if it loses money, it may lose its head is probably not so annoying to the Service as that of being unable to plan its working schedule and to indulge in needy visual research. Combined with shaky security and checked development is a third deterrent of unnecessary conflict over production and projection with other departments. These troubles form the reasons most favoring a budget that will permit the H.F.S. to operate with confidence and freedom...