Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, after the Black Hawks had swooped down on their three successive adversaries (third-place Montreal Canadiens, second-place New York Americans, top-ranking Toronto Maple Leafs, and snatched the Stanley Cup from under their blinking eyes, jeers changed to cheers. William Joseph Stewart was hailed as the "miracle man of hockey." the No. 1 sport figure...
...fire on the Ashtabula team. In the five-man event, he bowled a creditable enough 610 (for three games), in the doubles he posted 614. In the singles, he started out even worse with discouraging scores of 171 and 145 for his first two games. But suddenly in his third game, Mike Blazek began to hear again & again the hallowed sound that is music to a bowler's ears-the clean, choral crash that means a strike. Eight, nine, ten times in succession. Aware that something momentous was happening, excited crowds began to jam behind his alley, but Bowler...
...sabre event, second in foils and second in epée; winning 73½ bouts out of 99 in the two-day, twelve-college round robin; in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Astor, New York City. Runner-up was Yale, with 69½ victories. Navy finished third with 66, Army fourth with...
Guaranty's Case, With the aplomb of a man at the head of the third largest U. S. bank, Guaranty Chairman William Chapman Potter's affidavit retorts: "I resent these allegations in the complaint and in Mr. Young's affidavit and brand them as utterly false. The Guaranty Trust Co. has repeatedly told Mr. Young and his representatives that ... the only desire of the Guaranty Trust Co. was to protect the interests of the bondholders of Alleghany Corp., for whom it is trustee." Reason Guaranty is acting now, though it never did so while the Vans were...
...which otherwise runs so true to form it resembles the competent playing of a piece of music that everybody knows. Out of family conflicts, the War, Depression, the two families produce one unhappy intermarriage, one well-known liberal, one feminist, one famous artist, one War victim, one monk. The third generation turns out a talented left-wing artist, an illegitimate-born Communist, an avowed Fascist. Despite this disturbing picture of British family history, Author Bentley takes a calm view of the future: If half of the preceding generation muddled through, reasons one of her characters, why fear the fate...