Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baseball pitcher strikeouts are what homeruns are to a batter-an indication of letter-perfect efficiency. Last week, when 38-year-old Robert Moses ("Lefty") Grove of the Boston Red Sox struck out six batters in a game with the Detroit Tigers, he: i) won his third consecutive game of the current season and the 260th of his 14-year career in the American League, 2) pitched his team from third to second place in the pennant race, 3) benched himself in the lofty niche reserved for pitchers who have passed the 2,000-strikeout mark...
Even more frustrating than the lamp corner in many department stores is the room where second-rate reproductions of third-rate paintings are customarily sold under the name of Art. In the last few years, however, stores have taken steps to make their art departments at least as interesting as their advertising, and last week in Manhattan the John Wanamaker store cut loose with nothing less than the second annual exhibition of the American Artists' Congress. Wanamaker patrons in search of home furnishings were thus led to see some 235 examples of the livest professional work being done...
Samuel Calthrop, born too early, reaped nothing but satisfaction from registering his train with the U. S. Patent Office. It was not until hard times sharpened their wits and aviation pointed the way that U. S. railroads took up streamlining. In 1934, with nearly one-third of the country's Class I roads in bankruptcy, with autos, busses, airlines fast sponging up passenger traffic, the railroads began to come out with so-called "neo-trains," fancy to look at, fancy in performance. First to enter scheduled service was Chicago, Burlington & Quincy's famed "articulated" streamliner, the Zephyr...
...Third U. S. name was that of Philadelphia's blonde, blue-eyed, Yankee-born Hilda Emery Davis, who in private life is the wife of Danceband-Leader Meyer Davis. Forty-two-year-old Mrs. Davis, having been a professional pianist at the age of 10, having mothered five children, and taken a fling at Tin Pan Alley (Yon Are the Reason for My Love Song), had decided on a plunge into serious composition. The result, a symphonic poem, The Last Knight, based on some mystical verses by the late G. K. Chesterton, got solicitous treatment from Conductor Monteux, Composer...
...youngest pupil is three, its oldest 49. Fees for lessons range from 50? to $2. Children under ten pay $1 for a piano, violin or cello lesson, and a class in musical theory is thrown in for nothing. Adults pay $2. Actually these fees cover only one-third the cost of the lessons. Another third comes from the school's endowment fund; a final third is raised by public subscription. For specially talented pupils free scholarships are sometimes provided...