Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great majority of those who attended the meeting were small fry, politically and economically. Even Congress members who hold cabinet rank in Indian provinces are held down by Saint Gandhi to a salary of 500 rupees per month (non-Congress assistants get some 2,500), are forced to travel third class, refuse social invitations from the British governors. Because of these restrictions, a great sensation was caused recently when Saint Gandhi was found to have partaken of two bananas, an orange, three walnuts and a cup of boiled milk at the house of Sir John Anderson, then governor of Bengal...
...third century B.C., a Greek mathematician named Archimedes jumped from his bath, rushed home naked and dripping, shouting "Eureka, eureka!" He had just discovered an important physical principle. In 1937 A.D., a German-Jewish mathematician named Samuel Isaac Krieger, who was taking a mineral bath near Buffalo, N. Y., suddenly leaped out, rushed naked into the adjoining room, began to scribble figures. He thought he had discovered something too: a solution to the equation given in Fermat's last theorem...
Although trailing by a 22 to 14 score at the end of the third period, the Goldcoasters made a determined last period comeback, tying up the score at 22 all in the last three minutes of the game. Then with two minutes to go. Moody of Davenport, slipped in the final tally. Hubert Hauck, at center, was high scorer for Adams, with ten points to his credit...
Counting on the sparkling power which the Yorkmen turned on in the third period of the New Haven game when they just failed to tie the Crimson, the Blue sextet has its best chance in many seasons to smash the five-game winning streak chalked up by Harvard...
Dudley Humphrey at right wing, Gilbert Humphrey at center and David Bois at left wing for a first line are regarded as the best in intercollegiate ranks. But Coach Stubbs is betting on the edge his second and third lines hold over the Elis, revealing last night that the latter may "surprise everybody." HARVARD YALE Mechem, l.w. r.w., D. Humphrey Roberts, c. c., G. Humphrey Cutter, r.w. l.w., Boies Hicks, l.d. r.d., Howe Emerson, r.d. l.d. Gibson Mittell, g. g., Holt